overdrape

English

Etymology

over- +‎ drape

Verb

overdrape (third-person singular simple present overdrapes, present participle overdraping, simple past and past participle overdraped)

1. (transitive) To drape (something) over something else.
2. (transitive) To be draped over (something).
   • 1878, Charles Edgar Spencer, The Viking, Guy, Legend of the Moxahala: And Other Poems, page 29:

     Leave thy gleaming, crystal halls, / Where the velvet mosses green / Overdrape the dewy walls; […]

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