drapey
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By the 1970s, even the Queen was wearing looser-fitting evening gowns with drapey arms and "swirly whirly" patterns.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025
She’s wearing a long, drapey skirt with high slits that reveal her tattooed legs, and her signature nails click against one another as she gestures with her hands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2025
At a backyard disco party he threw recently, Zuckerberg wore a sequin floral bomber jacket over a drapey shirt unbuttoned to the mid-stomach.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2024
A version of his graduation collection — textured garments in drapey Indian silhouettes — premiered at India Fashion Week in 2002 and made him an instant success.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022
We do what we always do when we hang out in her room, bicycling our legs into the drapey fabric and gossiping about boys she has crushes on.
From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio
The Fr. drap, cloth, from which drapier and Eng. “draper” are derived, is of obscure origin.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various
I am very sensible how ill your lordship is like to be entertained with the pedantry of a drapier in the terms of his own trade.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters by Jonathan Swift
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