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draped

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. cloaked, clothed, draped, mantled, wrappedadjective

    covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak

    "leaf-clothed trees"; "fog-cloaked meadows"; "a beam draped with cobwebs"; "cloud-wrapped peaks"

  2. drapedadjective

    covered in folds of cloth

    "velvet-draped windows"

GCIDE

  1. drapedadjective

    curtained; -- of windows; as, velvet-draped windows. Opposite of curtainless.

ChatGPT

  1. draped

    Draped refers to the act of arranging or spreading something (like clothes, fabric, curtains) loosely or carelessly on or around a person, object or surface. It often gives a sense of fluidity and elegance, creating an attractive or dramatic appearance. In fashion, it's a technique about arranging and pinning the fabric onto a dress form or body. Meanwhile, in medical context, it can describe the act of covering the patient or specific part of their body with sterile drapes in preparation for surgery.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Draped

    of Drape

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of draped in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of draped in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of draped in a Sentence

  1. President Biden:

    They [service members] come home many of the fittest and best-trained warriors in the world, never the same. Headaches, numbness, dizziness, a cancer that would put them in a flag-draped coffin, one of those soldiers was my son, Maj. Beau Biden. I don't know for sure if the burn pit that he lived near, that his hooch [barracks] was there in Iraq, and before that Kosovo, is the cause of his brain cancer and the disease of so many other troops. But I am committed to find out everything we can.

  2. Andrew Huebner:

    The war in some ways was really a war for family, the public culture around the war was draped in familial metaphors, a war to defend women and children from deprivation.

  3. Alex Dunn:

    I did n’t want to believe that it was really happening, but when he stepped on the flag – I just thought about all these men and women who fought for that flag that he just walked on – all these men and women who’ve come home with that flag draped over their coffin.

  4. Aloo Denish Obiero:

    Technology, imbued with wisdom, adorned by ethics, and draped in compassion, possesses the power to address complex challenges, steer positive societal change, and foster an inclusive, equitable world.

  5. Associated Press:

    To hear the words ‘flag-draped coffin’ and not think about the 13 Marines who lost their lives under Joe Biden’s watch, I don’t see how that’s possible.

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