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Hanging :: Hanging (n.) That which is hung as lining or drapery for the walls of a room, as tapestry, paper, etc., or to cover or drape a door or window; -- used chiefly in the plural..

Curtain :: Curtain (n.) A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage..

Mourning :: Mourning (n.) Garb, drapery, or emblems indicative of grief, esp. clothing or a badge of somber black..

Undrape :: Undrape (v. t.) To strip of drapery; to uncover or unveil.

Draperied :: Draperied (a.) Covered or supplied with drapery.

Black :: Black (n.) Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.

Valance :: Valance (v. t.) To furnish with a valance; to decorate with hangings or drapery.

Haberdasher :: Haberdasher (n.) A dealer in drapery goods of various descriptions, as laces, silks, trimmings, etc..

Drapery :: Drapery (n.) The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth..

Drapery :: Drapery (n.) Cloth, or woolen stuffs in general..

Drape :: Drape (v. i.) To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc..

Pose :: Pose (v. i.) To assume and maintain a studied attitude, with studied arrangement of drapery; to strike an attitude; to attitudinize; figuratively, to assume or affect a certain character; as, she poses as a prude..

Lambrequin :: Lambrequin (n.) A piece of ornament drapery or short decorative hanging, pendent from a shelf or from the casing above a window, hiding the curtain fixtures, or the like..

Mantling :: Mantling (n.) The representation of a mantle, or the drapery behind and around a coat of arms: -- called also lambrequin..

Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To cover, decorate, or furnish by hanging pictures trophies, drapery, and the like, or by covering with paper hangings; -- said of a wall, a room, etc..

Tasteless :: Tasteless (a.) Not in accordance with good taste; as, a tasteless arrangement of drapery..

Tasteful :: Tasteful (a.) Having or exhibiting good taste; in accordance with good taste; tasty; as, a tasteful drapery..

Edgy :: Edgy (a.) Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined..

Drape :: Drape (v. t.) To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc..

Valance :: Valance (n.) Hanging drapery for a bed, couch, window, or the like, especially that which hangs around a bedstead, from the bed to the floor..

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