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drape noun- clothing; a man’s suit US, 1938
- When we stripped naked and lined up for our numbers and prison clothes, my morale hit zero and kept sinking. Jack, the drapes they handed me a jungle bum wouldn’t wear on workdays. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 33, 1946
- Them holler drapes Vann wears out in front of his band is just too much, man. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 109, 1961
- — Home Office Glossary of Terms and Slang Common in Penal Establishments, 1978
- the sag of a suit favoured by zoot suiters and their fellow travellers US
- What is this suit you make over and over, with the padded shoulders and the extreme drape and the pegged trousers? — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 217, 1954
- Then there was Prez, a husky, handsome blond like a freckled boxer, meticulously wrapped inside his sharkskin plaid suit with the long drape and the collar falling back[.] — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 239, 1957
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