how to pronounce drapery

/ˈdɹɛɪpɚiː/

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drapery is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of drapery in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… peoria flag and drapery is a business …”

meanings of drapery

noun:

The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.
Cloth draped gracefully in folds.
Cloth, or woollen materials in general.
A piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain; a drape.

drapery frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word drapery occurs in english on average 0.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics drapery can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that drapery can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) leisure and entertainment;