drap
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Take the time Little-Siebold, the apple researcher, helped identify a nearly 200-year-old Drap d’Or de Bretagne apple tree growing on Maine’s Verona Island—the only known example of the ancient apple living in North America.
After he left, I wrapped myself, like Sonya Marmeladova, in a drap de dames shawl and lay all day on the couch, mulling this over.
From The New Yorker
Mr. Drap, 43, could be seen recently assembling pieces of plywood around a twin mattress under a highway overpass, trying to build a shelter amid detritus left by a half dozen other homeless people.
From New York Times
The Tap-RoomThis warl's a tap-room owre and owre Whaur ilk ane tak's his caper Some taste the sweet, some drink the sour As waiter Fate sees proper; Let mankind live, ae social core, An drap a' selfish quar'ling, And when the Landlord ca's his score, May ilk ane's clink be sterling.
From The Guardian
"You'll choke plumb to death afore ye ever gits a drap from me," averred Sam.
From Project Gutenberg
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