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Casting of draperies
Casting Cast"ing, n. 1. The act of one who casts or throws, as in fishing. 2. The act or process of making casts or impressions, or of shaping metal or plaster in a mold; the act or the process of pouring molten metal into a mold. 3. That which is cast in a mold; esp. the mass of metal so cast; as, a casting in iron; bronze casting. 4. The warping of a board. --Brande & C. 5. The act of casting off, or that which is cast off, as skin, feathers, excrement, etc. Casting of draperies, the proper distribution of the folds of garments, in painting and sculpture. Casting line (Fishing), the leader; also, sometimes applied to the long reel line. Casting net, a net which is cast and drawn, in distinction from a net that is set and left. Casting voice, Casting vote, the decisive vote of a presiding officer, when the votes of the assembly or house are equally divided. ``When there was an equal vote, the governor had the casting voice.' --B. Trumbull.

Meaning of Draperies from wikipedia

- the grand manner; these are also known as draperies. For the Gr****s, as Kenneth Clark noted, clinging drapery followed the planes and contours of the bodily...
- United Drapery Stores, or UDS, was a British retail group that dominated the British high street from the 1950s to the early 1980s. In 1925, Charterhouse...
- The drapery hook is a hook designed for hanging drapery. It is often concealed within the drape's header tape The distinctive shape shown in the figure...
- A drapery painter refers to a specialist painter commissioned to complete the dress, costumes and other accessories worn by the subjects of portrait paintings...
- Drapery Trust (initially called the Drapery & General Investment Trust Ltd) formed in 1925 by Clarence Hatry, a notorious British financier. He had made...
- The Drapery Court (French: Gilde Drapière or Tribunal de la Draperie, Dutch: Lakengilde) also called the Chamber of Commerce in the eighteenth century...
- into thin sheets called "draperies" or "curtains" where they descend from overhanging portions of the wall. Some draperies are translucent, and some...
- Landport Drapery Bazaar was a department store located on Commercial Road, Portsmouth. In 1870 Robert E Davies, the three time Mayor of Portsmouth opened...
- Ellwood & Co Drapery is a heritage-listed shop at 62 Churchill Street, Childers, Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by F H Faircloth...
- This contributed to a shift in Opeth's musical style. The songs "The Drapery Falls" and "Still Day Beneath the Sun" were released as singles. Although...