<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.</li><li>to adjust (curtains, clothes, etc.) into graceful folds, attractive lines, etc.</li><li>to arrange, hang, or let fall carelessly: Don't drape your feet over the chair!</li><li>Medicine/Medical, Surgery: to place cloth so as to surround (a part to be examined, treated, or operated upon).</li><li>(in reinforced-concrete construction) to hang (reinforcement) in a certain form between two points before pouring the concrete.</li><li>to put a black cravat on (a flagstaff) as a token of mourning.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a curtain or hanging of heavy fabric and usually considerable length, especially either of a pair for covering a window and drawn open and shut horizontally.</li><li>either of a pair of similar curtains extending or draped at the sides of a window, French doors, or the like as decoration.</li><li>manner or style of hanging: the drape of a skirt.</li></ul>