Sentence examples for a drape of from inspiring English sources
In a more graceful rendition, a drape of lace would fall over one leg but bare the other in movement.
Yet on the runway, it did not seem quite so complex, as the elements — a pattern of flames, of flowing water or seagulls — came on slim-line clothes, with a drape of fabric like a disembodied sari at the shoulder.
After bread – one halved slice – and excellent, if equally cheese-pared butter, comes the set menu's first course: squid, lightly pickled white radish, halved caperberry, a frond of rocket, a drape of basil, some fine, ripe tomato.
Including a yellow dress, a drape of bunting and a pair of men's hats, they personify Donald Judd's term "specific objects" with admirable clarity and can elicit a frisson of shock.
A drape of autumnal elm leaves about a rock documents, through the belying brilliance of its yellow, the doom of the diseased species of tree; a line of fleece laid atop a Dumfriesshire drystone wall invokes a sorry history, when entire rural populations were cleared to make way for sheep.
The show begins with the Frenchwoman, a wonderfully complicated creation who always appears in the same pose (stretched out languorously on her side like Catherine Deneuve in a fragrance ad) in a drape of red fabric and begins most of her sentences with "People ask me".
And lobster tail does not benefit from a draping of salty prosciutto.
But many prefer a simple drape of funeral black, as they are driving through areas where being identified as a military family would risk reprisals.
The entree needed only a little less cooking and some sautéed greens or maybe grilled apples to replace a Dali-style drape of a goat-cheese crepe, and it would have been a meal suitable for reminiscing, too.
These striations are especially apparent in his full-length portrait of Signora Pantaleoni from 1894, which shows a gentle but efficient-looking matron standing in front of an improvised drape of gold that partly obscures some tall household plants.
It is associated with the classic and sophisticated look of the 1940's, with a draping strand of pearls that lands just below the hollow of the neck.
