diaper (diaper)

[ diapered cloth; a particular use of OF. diapre, diaspre = Pr. diaspre = Sp. diáspero, diaspro = Pg. diaspro = It. diaspro, jasper, color having a pattern of the same color woven in it; now, a textile fabric having a pattern not strongly defined, and repeated at short diaphemetric A cope covered with trees and diapered birds. Inventory in S. K. Textiles, p. 33. II. in trans. To draw a series or succe ion of flowers or figures, as upon cloth. If you diaper upon folds, let your work be broken, and taken, as it were, by the half: for reason tells you that your fold must cover somewhat unseen. Peacham , Drawing.