undrape
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of undrape
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All manner of things happen to the author's creatures; Ko pitches a perfect game, King Amaranth decides that England's girls should undrape too, and several characters turn into statues.
From Time Magazine Archive
In having to lay down a timetable that takes the U.S. well into the 1980s, he is seeking to undrape ready resignation in a notoriously impatient people.
From Time Magazine Archive
Penny did not bother to undrape herself from the davenport.
From Hoofbeats on the Turnpike by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt
Along their outbound trajectories, both Voyagers now locally measure magnetic fields that are stronger than—and askew from—values extrapolated from IBEX’s remote all-sky observations of the undraped magnetic field farther out.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 8, 2023
Former New York mayor Philip Hone wrote in his diary that the statue looked “like a great herculean Warrior — like Venus of the Bath — undraped, with a huge napkin lying on his lap.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 22, 2023
The girl’s undraped limbs, turned-out feet and erect posture speak of submission to ballet’s discipline; her hands, clasped behind her back, radiate stoicism.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2018
She hangs multiple crucifixes around her neck, has draped herself undraped in the American flag and made freewheeling use of the hallowed peace symbol.
From Time Magazine Archive
Over the undraped, one-piece robe of classic type, a second garment is now worn, cut with straight lines.
From Woman as Decoration by Emily Burbank
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