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draped

/dɹeɪpt/ adjective B2
  1. Covered by or clothed in cloth that drapes loosely around the object or body.
  2. Having curtains or drapery (often of a specified type)
  3. Loosely fitted, with softly hanging fabric.
  4. Hanging loosely.
  5. surrounding or surrounded. (figuratively)
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It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen to carry through the dim, fog-draped streets.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 27 · B2
Diana and Ruby and I are to be in it, all draped in white with flowing hair.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 185 · C1
It stood on a small pedestal table with an old dressing-gown of Holmes’s so draped round it that the illusion from the street was absolutely perfect.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 27 · C1
The whole front was draped in ivy, with a patch clipped bare here and there where a window or a coat of arms broke through the dark veil.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 69 · C1

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