Read full poem →mourns for Grant, who saved the Union. Muffle the drums,
drape the colors, guard the tent. ‘Soldiers, sleep, thy war-
fare o’er; sleep the sleep that knows no waking!’”’
Dictionary Entry
A curtain; a drapery.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. drapeover drapethemselves drapedrape sterile
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Poetry examples for “drape”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →My speed may hardly be, for homage to crag and to cave
No deity deigns to drape with verdure?--at least I can breathe,
Fear in thee no fraud from the blind, no lie from the mute!"
Read full poem →You nude of cloud, and but by favour throw
Aside its drape . . .