网站首页  词典首页

请输入您要查询的词汇:

 

词汇 drapery
释义 drapery
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈdreɪ.pər.i/ us /ˈdreɪ.pɚ.i/
cloth hanging or arranged in folds帷,幕,帐,帘
UKold-fashioned (USdry goods)
cloth, pins, thread, etc. used for sewing(布匹、针线等)制衣用品
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Textiles: general words
baize
Bargello
bias
brocade
cloth
cutpiece
denier
multi-stranded
multifilament
nap
padding
pile
pill
reweave
strand
suiting
swatch
the weft
webbed
yarn

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Knitting & sewing

Examples of drapery


drapery
The book concludes with yet another rhetorical dialogue between interlocutors representing conventional interest groups, including the manufacturer of new draperies, the old-fashioned broadcloth clothier, a landowner's bailiff, and a farmer.
The basic positioning of the drapery is accomplished, and all these are more or less carried to the same stage.
Finally, drapery was to be simple and bereft of texture or local detail.
The round-headed chisel was used somewhat on the hair and on the drapery at the back in conjunction with the flat chisel.
The tool had flatter teeth than the one used at the back of the drapery.
One important quality of drapery is its opacity - in other words, its lack of transparency.
Two speakers were placed out of site, behind the drapery on each side of the monitor.
The autonomous and emancipated character of drapery strains the movement of the eyes, compelling the viewer's gaze into the deep cavities formed in the fabric.
In the mid sixteenth century, a new view of drapery that would eventually free it from its realism was accepted.
The relationship of drapery to the underlying structure is clearly of fundamental significance and leads to a clearer distinction between tailored and draped architecture.
The figure and much of the drapery facing the front is polished, while other parts of the statue are unfinished.
Abrasives of several levels of fineness were used to polish the figure and the polished portions of the drapery.
Facial expressions became suitably harsh and drapery appropriately modest.
I pointed out that in many nursing homes there are still draperies and hangings which spread disease.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Why should individuals who hold up land be subject to a penal tax any more than individuals who hold up, let us say, draperies or groceries?
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
See all examples of drapery
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
随便看

 

反思网英语在线翻译词典收录了377474条英语词汇在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2005-2024 fscai.com All Rights Reserved 更新时间:2024/12/23 2:22:00