Difference between Mantle and Drape

What is the difference between Mantle and Drape?

Mantle as a verb is to cover or conceal (something). while Drape as a verb is to cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.

Mantle

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cover or conceal (something). To become covered or concealed.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops anything that covers or conceals something else the zone of hot gases around a flame; the gauzy incandescent covering of a gas lamp the cerebral cortex the layer between the Earth's core and crust the body wall of a mollusc/mollusk , fireplace shelf. The top of a woman's torso, from her shoulders to her breasts

Example sentence: Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

Drape

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A curtain, a drapery.See drapes.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.To rail at; to banter.To make cloth.To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.To hang or rest limplyTo spread over, cover.

Example sentence: Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.

We hope you now know whether to use Mantle or Drape in your sentence.

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