Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bedrape

/bɪˈdɹeɪp/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bedrape
IPA: /bɪˈdɹeɪp/

12

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To dress, clothe.

Archaic

verb

To drape, cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery.

Example Sentences

"We moderns bedeck and bedrape us in all sorts of meretricious togas, till a pair of fine eyes and a dashing manner pass for beauty; but when life tries the metal--when nature applies her inevitable test--the degenerate or neurotic type goes to the wall.""
"Shift and bedeck and bedrape her as they might, she was yet the Burdock; her lights would run down the Channel with no new consciousness in their stare, and there was work and peril for men aboard of her as of old."
"The pink and white may, the clumps of lilac, the leafy hedgerows, the verandahs bedraped with mauve wistaria […]—it was all a sight, I can assure you!"
"I had to wait in a lofty drawing-room with three long windows from floor to ceiling that were like three luminous and bedraped columns."

Etymology

From be- + drape.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: be

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /bɪˈdɹeɪp/

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

bedrapes (present, singular) bedraping (participle, present) bedraped (participle, past) bedraped (past)

Questions

How do you pronounce bedrape?: The recorded pronunciation is /bɪˈdɹeɪp/.
What does bedrape mean?: To dress, clothe.
Where does bedrape come from?: From be- + drape.

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