bedrape

Verb

1. To dress, clothe.
   • 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...
   • 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. -...
2. To drape, cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery.
   • 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! - 1886, Gordon Stables, chapter 3, in The Cruise of the Land Yacht...
   • 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. - 1899 April, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh...