drapery

1. 1.

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

   Synonymscurtaindrapemantlepall

   Broaderblindfurnishing

   Narrowerdrop curtainfestoonfrontalportiereshower curtaintheater curtain

   Partseyelet
2. 2.

   cloth gracefully draped and arranged in loose folds

   Broaderfabric

Other forms of drapery

plural

draperies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about drapery

What does drapery mean?

drapery means "hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in drapery?

drapery has 3 syllables: dra-pe-ry. The stress falls on "dra". In IPA it is /ˈdɹeɪpɚi/.

What is another word for drapery?

Close synonyms include curtain, drape, mantle, pall. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drapery a common word?

drapery is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.