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fabric that falls instead of fits, turning gravity into the only tailor it trusts

means To hang or arrange cloth (or anything cloth-like) so it falls loosely over something, or the loose fold of fabric that results.

from From the Old French 'draper,' to weave or make cloth, built on 'drap,' meaning cloth — itself from Late Latin 'drappus,' a word of uncertain, possibly Celtic origin. The same root clothes 'drapery' and the 'draper' who once sold fabric by the bolt; the verb-sense of letting cloth fall in folds came later, the word softening from the making of cloth to the way it hangs.

royal origin
medieval drapers were wealthy cloth merchants, not curtain hangers
physics nerd
how cloth hangs is measured in actual drape coefficients
film trick
draped statues hide what sculptors couldn't quite finish
verb power
you can drape a body, a room, or shade
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