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milieu(dictionary)
milieu interieur(medicine)
milieu therapy(medicine)
juste milieu(dictionary)

drapery (iou) and milieu (medicine)


drapery (iou)



drapery noun & verb. ME.
[Old & mod. French draperie, from drap cloth (see DRAPE verb), drapier DRAPER: see -ERY.]
A. noun.
Cloth, fabrics. ME.
The place where a draper works. LME-E17.
The trade of a draper. L15.
The artistic arranging of clothing in painting and sculpture. E17.
Cloth with which something is draped; hangings; clothing, esp. clothing that hangs; in pl., curtains. L17.
W. Holtby The flying drapery of her lilac tunic. O. Manning The monstrous catafalque appeared, black and blackly ornamented with fringed draperies. fig.: W. Howitt Nature is stripped of all her summer drapery.
Comb.: drapery artist, drapery drudge an artist employed to paint in the drapery of another's painting(s).
b. verb trans. Cover with drapery; drape. E19.

milieu (medicine)


milieu


1. Surroundings; environment.

2. In psychiatry, the social setting of the mental patient, e.g., the family setting or a hospital unit.

Origin: Fr. Mi, fr. L. Medius, middle, + lieu, fr. L. Locus, place