as in curtains
pieces of cloth hung to darken, decorate, or divide a room the drapery for the picture window matched the color of the furniture in the center of the room

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Recent Examples of drapery Wiping down your sills, dropping your draperies off at the dry cleaner, and cleaning the windows from top-to-bottom will ensure your effort on the exterior isn’t done in vain but instead, promises your windows sparkle from the inside out. Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2024 Other rooms had no windows, which became masterfully unnoticeable in Kate Figler Interiors’ Venus Drawing Room, swathed in Gracie’s Linda’s Garden mural wall covering with a valance and drapery by Perennials that evokes the feeling of a windowed space. Anne Lee Phillips, Architectural Digest, 28 Oct. 2024 The restaurant’s interior was decorated with silk draperies, while artworks hung in the spaces between windows. Oscar Holland, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024 The white walls and draperies were brought to life with a cluster of flat screens, positioned in the center of the room, broadcasting LoCascio’s kaleidoscopic motifs. Baze Mpinja, Glamour, 13 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for drapery 

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“Drapery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drapery. Accessed 12 Dec. 2024.

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