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Definition of Bedrape
1. to drape [v -DRAPED, -DRAPING, -DRAPES] - See also: drape
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedrape
Literary usage of Bedrape
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"The clothes inside of the cells—the stuffs, the silks, the laces; the elaborate
delicate disguises that wait in trunks and drawers and closets, or bedrape ..."
2. Essays on French Novelists by George Saintsbury (1891)
"... that the pagan Pantheon was a Pantheon ; that your Greek did not worship the
god who rhymes to " bedrape us " all day long and every day in the year. ..."
3. The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries (1909)
"... Benevolent Brotherhood, to bedrape benighted colored brethren in bright red
flannel underwear? Mrs. Jellyby is now " a joiner." One phrase more of humor ..."
4. The Merry-go-round by Carl Van Vechten (1918)
"The New Isadora " We shift and bedeck and bedrape us, Thou art noble and nude
and antique; " Swinburne's " Dolores." I HAVE a fine memory of a chance ..."
5. Alaskana: Or, Alaska in Descriptive and Legendary Poems by Bushrod Washington James (1892)
"... Trim their heads with gaudy feathers, And bedrape their limbs and shoulders
Bright with clothes or T'linket blankets, Every garment bearing emblems Of ..."
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