drapes
Example Sentences
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After high school, Lee got a job working nights hanging drapes at a textile plant as well.
Fathers and daughters embraced under string lights and drapes, as Stevie Wonder’s “Isn’t She Lovely” played, a song created by Wonder originally for his own daughter.
From Salon
He then drapes himself over Autumn’s shoulders so it looks like she’s wearing a scarf made of aboatia fur.
From Literature
North of Copenhagen is the city of Elsinore, home to the castle where Hamlet takes place, with its wandering ghosts, ill-advised eavesdropping behind the drapes, conversations with skulls, and deadly duels in iambic pentameter.
From Literature
Lady Constance searched and yanked vigorously on a cord, which turned out to be the tieback for the drapes.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.