undrape
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of undrape
Example Sentences
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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 Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine)
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 has the inspiring warmth of an undraped mannequin in a store window.
From Time Magazine Archive
Practised in a modern Cis-Atlantic seat of learning, as I have seen it done, without the historical background, the same disregard of normal decorum becomes undraped rowdyism—boxing without gloves.
From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
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