drapery
Example Sentences
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In the large market town of Northampton, a department store known as Adnitts - owned by the Adnitt Brothers - first opened on the Drapery in 1871.
From BBC • May 15, 2025
Drapery, he said, is “one of the most important parts of an interior’s layers.”
From Seattle Times • Nov. 8, 2023
“We would have been busy anyway, because this is when we prepare for Thanksgiving and Christmas,” said Dale Forbes, a co-owner of Chicago Upholstery and Drapery.
From Slate • Oct. 15, 2021
In 2002 Ms. Hollander helped organize an exhibition at the National Gallery in London, “Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in Painting,” for which she also wrote the catalog.
From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2014
Mocking all our soul's desiring, Distant now the notes are stealing, And the minstrels high reining, Drapery blue their forms concealing.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 by Various
