DictionaryRoot: draperie
Old French
draperie
weaving, cloth-making; clothes shop
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noun
drapery
DRAY-per-ee/ˈdreɪpəri/
Fabric arranged in folds or hung as decoration.
Etymology
Old French draperie named cloth-making and a place selling clothes, while English used the word for textiles themselves. It later came to mean material used to drape something, connecting the cloth trade with decorative hangings.