drapes

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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

When television is finally laid to rest, we will still remember her sweeping down a staircase, in a dress made from drapes — and their rod — in a takeoff on “Gone With the Wind.”

From Los Angeles Times

Move heavy furniture away from the windows, open them up and add sheer drapes where you want to soften harsh lines.

From Seattle Times

So there he was on a gray February day at Harborview Medical Center, unconscious under anesthesia and sheathed under blue sterilized drapes.

From Seattle Times

Minutes later, video shows workers beginning to apply chest compressions and a defibrillator machine to Otieno’s upper body, before a medical technician drapes him with a white sheet at 5:48 p.m.

From Washington Post