Definition of drapery | Bee Dictionary of English

Ahead of the rest: This marble bust of Charles II (1684) by Honor Pelle conveys the richness and drama of Baroque art, with the English King surrounded by billowing drapery and .
A throne would be set up for Pius XII and drapery-covered benches for the cardinals.
She concealed her slenderness in an embonpoint of drapery, revealed the toes of her slippers.

NEW ALBANY BICENTENNIAL: Michael C. Kerr
Drapery was hung and flags lowered as life in New Albany came to a standstill on a Friday afternoon in August of 1876. Michael C. Kerr, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and resident of the river town, had died only days before of tuberculosis at a spa in West Virginia, a place he had traveled to recuperate from his lengthy illness.
June 12, 2013 - Evening News and Tribune

Edmund Burke in Seattle Post Intelligencer
We do, unfortunately, live, as Edmund Burke lamented, in an age of "economists and calculators" who are eager to reduce all things to the dust of numeracy, neglecting what Burke called "the decent drapery of life."
Nicholas Penny in New York Times
I was born in Chicago and my dad was a small business man - I mean a small business man - he had a small drapery business where he would actually print drapery fabrics and travel around and sell them and he usually enlisted my mother, my brothers,... Hillary Rodham Clinton http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_Clinton&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHOarXVfe0H5lTsVdy93IEoGrJtYg CBS News http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/04/26/politics/fromtheroad/entry4048102.shtml&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE78UkAIZjBicW-L7unfI1k9bgxjg Apr 26, 2008 30231 39002 drapery Although the hands are close to the body, they are completely formed, which is very hard to do, and you can see the veins on his arms," said Nicholas Penny, the gallery's sculpture curator. "The drapery that forms Christ's loincloth is paper...

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