Meaning

noun hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

noun the manner in which fabric hangs or falls

noun a sterile covering arranged over a patient's body during a medical examination or during surgery in order to reduce the possibility of contamination

originFrom Middle English drape (“a drape”, noun), from Old French draper (“to drape; to full cloth”), from drap (“cloth, drabcloth”), from Late Latin drappus, drapus (“drabcloth, kerchief”), a word first recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne, probably from Frankish *drapi, *drāpi (“that which is fulled, drabcloth”, literally “that which is struck or for striking”), from Proto-Germanic *drapiz…

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