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• v  arrange in a particular way
• v  place casually
  The cat draped herself on the sofa
• v  cover as if with clothing
• v  cover or dress loosely with cloth
• s  covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak
  a beam draped with cobwebs
• s  covered in folds of cloth
  velvet-draped windows

• Grillo was still funny, but his jokes were now draped around barbed social commentary.
• The flag-draped casket was pulled on a caisson the same one that had carried FDR by six gray horses; a riderless horse named Black Jack followed behind, a sword hanging .
• She liked them--all but the ladies' predilection for ostrich -boa-draped hats.

• drape
• clothe
• cloak
• robe
• cloaked
• clothed
• mantled
• wrapped

News & Articles

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• Soccer-Australia fans celebrate World Cup entry with Sydney party
  By Michael Sin SYDNEY, June 19 (Reuters) - Australia's soccer team celebrated with hundreds of fans at a victory party in Sydney on Wednesday after eking out a nervous win over Iraq that sealed their ticket to the 2014 World Cup finals in Brazil. Their victory drew bleary-eyed fans young and old to Sydney's Customs House, all draped in green and gold, keen to meet the players, who were welcomed ...
  June 19, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Gov. Cellucci remembered at State House service
  BOSTON -- In a flag draped coffin, Governor Paul Cellucci laid in repose in the State House as people filed in to pay their respects.
  June 18, 2013 - 7 News Boston
• Ginobili breaks out as Spurs crush Heat in Game 5
  SAN ANTONIO -- Long after the clock had struck zero, Tim Duncan draped an arm over Tony Parker's shoulder and pumped his fist at the crowd as they walked toward a tunnel. One win: That's all that separates the Spurs from their fifth championship in 14 years, from bookending one of the most successful runs in team sports history with another title. It wasn't easy, and it got a little too close ...
  June 17, 2013 - Sports Illustrated

Quotes

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• Clarence Thomas in ABC News
  A child of the segregated South, Thomas says he was being pursued "not by bigots in white robes but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony."
• Joe Biden in Forbes
  As I climbed into the C-130, strapped into the middle of that cargo bay was a flag-draped coffin,Biden says. "It turned that cargo bay into a cathedral. And all I could think of was the parents waiting at the other end. We must end this...
• La Toya Jackson in Washington Post
  He was dressed in all white pearl beads going across, draped across (and) a beautiful big gold belt ...... like a belt that you win being a boxer,La Toya Jackson told journalist Barbara Walters in a "20/20" interview to air on ABC on Friday...