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What does drapery mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) Cloth draped gracefully in folds.
  2. (countable) A piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain; a drape.
  3. The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.
  4. Cloth, or woollen materials in general.
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This mother of seven was widowed just after arrival in one of the First Four Ships, and supported the family by opening a small drapery business.
Her parents had been milliners in Clapham, just down the road, and had run a millinery and drapery shop.
There flows a ruddier light through the blood-colored panes, and the blackness of the sable drapery appalls.
He discovers that donning the dusty drapery magically transforms him into a genuine vampire.
Made of wood or metal, decorative rods span the window frame and act as the primary support for the drapery or scarf.
Jabach is known to have retouched drawings in his collection, and Viatte suggests that all the drapery studies have suffered this fate.

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