drape
n.— «Enter Mr. Sapienza, the freshly recruited weight-training instructor from the Maryland Reform School for Boys. In less than a week, using nonviolent methods that probably would get him fired today, he had the “drapes” as they were called—elsewhere they were “hoods”—singing “Teen Angel” a cappella.» —“Murrieta takes ‘sex’ out of classes” by Phil Strickland North County Times (Escondido, California) Aug. 29, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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