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undrape

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[uhn-drayp] / ʌnˈdreɪp /

verb (used with object)

undraped, undraping
  1. to strip of drapery; uncover.


Etymology

Origin of undrape

First recorded in 1865–70; un- 2 + drape


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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

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

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

Nor was this enough for Michelangelo, since the better to display his art he has grouped several undraped figures in the background, some upright, some half recumbent, and others seated.

From Six Centuries of Painting by Randall Davies

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