overdrape

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English

Etymology

From 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;