Wondering how to use Drapery in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as curtain or material.
Drapery in a sentence
Drapery meaning
- Cloth draped gracefully in folds.
- A piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain; a drape.
- The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.
Using Drapery
- The main meaning on this page is: Cloth draped gracefully in folds. | A piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain; a drape. | The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.
- Useful related words include: curtain, material, cloth, fabric.
- In the example corpus, drapery often appears in combinations such as: and drapery, drapery and, of drapery.
Context around Drapery
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 11 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Drapery
- In this selection, "drapery" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, mesh, leading, new, shop, system and newbie stand out and add context to how "drapery" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a corrugated drapery of up and a small drapery shop in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "drapery" sits close to words such as abbe, abeyance and abp, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with drapery
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The building last was occupied by Illinois Carpet and Drapery, which closed in 2022. (14 words)
Later, he and his wife, Josephine, opened a drapery store in Cowra's main street. (15 words)
A marked development in Leonardo's ability to draw drapery occurred in his early works. (15 words)
Fra Bartolomeo's compositions are remarkable for skill in the massing of light and shade, richness and delicacy of colouring, and for the admirable drapery of the figures, Bartolomeo having been the first to introduce and use the lay-figure with joints. (42 words)
Her father owned a drapery shop in her village on the west coast of Ireland, which meant she spent a lot of her childhood 'gawking at everybody's houses' while helping her father install curtains and blinds. (37 words)
In the 1920s the partnership flourished, acquiring several potential competitors, notably Chivers which occupied large premises at 7-9 High Street, as befitted a business advertised as 'The Leading Drapery House' in Abingdon. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
The building last was occupied by Illinois Carpet and Drapery, which closed in 2022.
Her father owned a drapery shop in her village on the west coast of Ireland, which meant she spent a lot of her childhood 'gawking at everybody's houses' while helping her father install curtains and blinds.
Laura Ramsay has watched the popularity of downtown Bangor wax and wane over the 25 years she has worked at Bangor Window Shade and Drapery on Main Street.
Officials recommended a cable-mesh drapery system to prevent any sloughing of remaining loose materials and planting native seeds to further stabilize the slope.
That's why we're here to break down the basics for an easy shopping experience — whether you're a drapery newbie or veteran.
Add a few matching coloured textiles like pillows, throws and drapery and you will wake up (and warm up) your rooms for the cold winter ahead.
In the 1920s the partnership flourished, acquiring several potential competitors, notably Chivers which occupied large premises at 7-9 High Street, as befitted a business advertised as 'The Leading Drapery House' in Abingdon.
Later, he and his wife, Josephine, opened a drapery store in Cowra's main street.
Sophia Kokosalaki, the London-based Greek designer, has died at the age of 47. Kokosalaki was known for her talent for drapery and clothes that had a female-friendly glamour.
The Yardville location has recently undergone a top-to-bottom renovation of the interior—new carpets, new drapery, new walls and woodwork and new paint.
According to a report from the Fairfield Fire Department, the fire began when candles ignited a drapery in the sitting room.
But the bottom of the downstroke at close quarters and from slightly above reveals a bird cloaked in a corrugated drapery of up-curved feathers.
Instead of agreeing to make the man more “respectable” with a flutter of drapery, Burne-Jones abandoned the society and became more closely associated with the pre-Raphaelite group and his friend Morris.
It was a far cry from its humble beginnings as a small drapery shop in Glasgow in 1849, the brainchild of farmer’s son Hugh Fraser and small business owner James Arthur.
Agostino only got as far as beginning to shape the legs, feet and the torso, roughing out some drapery and probably gouging a hole between the legs.
A marked development in Leonardo's ability to draw drapery occurred in his early works.
A significant motif of Romanesque design is the spiral, a form applied to both plant motifs and drapery in Romanesque sculpture.
Bartolomeo learned perspective from the younger artist, while Raphael added skills in coloring and handling of drapery, which was noticeable in the works he produced after their meeting.
Ernst Kitzinger found in both monuments the same "stubby proportions, angular movements, an ordering of parts through symmetry and repetition and a rendering of features and drapery folds through incisions rather than modelling..
Fra Bartolomeo's compositions are remarkable for skill in the massing of light and shade, richness and delicacy of colouring, and for the admirable drapery of the figures, Bartolomeo having been the first to introduce and use the lay-figure with joints.
Common combinations with drapery
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and drapery 5×
- drapery and 4×
- of drapery 3×
- drapery which 2×
- drapery shop 2×
- drapery store 2×
- drapery in 2×
- drapery of 2×