What is "draping"

Drape \Drape\ (dr[=a]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Draped; p. pr. & vb. n. Draping.] [F. draper, fr. drap cloth. See 3d Drab.]

1. To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.

   The whole people were draped professionally.
   --De Quincey.

   These starry blossoms, [of the snow] pure and white, Soft falling, falling, through the night, Have draped the woods and mere.
   --Bungay.

2. To rail at; to banter. [Obs.]
   --Sir W. Temple.

n. 1 That which drapes. 2 Material used as a drape. vb. (present participle of drape English)