(n.) A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women.
(n.) That which conceals; a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a fair pretense; a mask; a cover.
(v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a cloak; hence, to hide or conceal.
Example Sentences:
(1) But when people's jobs, homes and businesses are in jeopardy, it is not enough for the prime minister and the chancellor to use the eurozone crisis as a cloak to hide their lack of action.
(2) Winston Churchill, when he was offered the role of minister of the local government board in 1906, commented: "There is no place more laborious, more anxious, more thankless, more cloaked with petty and even squalid detail, more full of hopeless and insoluble difficulties."
(3) I can't pull an invisibility cloak over my house – nor would I wish to," she said, a little wistfully, as if she really wished she had Harry Potter's magic powers.
(4) Wearing royal blue cloaks with pointed hoods, the boys line up beside the road in a small village just outside the city of Ségou, chanting in unison.
(5) The most promising addition is the under-construction National Museum of African American History and Culture, designed by the British architect David Adjaye and scheduled to open in 2015, which cloaks a modernist structure with shimmering bronze-coated decorative panels.
(6) Brennan's testimony theoretically represents a rare chance to learn more about drone killing, warrantless wiretapping, torture, rendition, foreign meddling and other odd cloak-and-daggery.
(7) "The only reason they thought they could get away with it was because they had a guaranteed cloak of secrecy.
(8) We, and the public, cannot meaningfully evaluate execution protocol cloaked in secrecy.
(9) There's the odd scene where he's scrambling around naked, but it's cloaked in a more intelligent context.
(10) I will put prices up if I suddenly want a velvet cloak or a bejewelled cock ring.
(11) Images of her being dragged and stomped on - her black abaya cloak torn open to reveal her naked torso and blue bra - became a rallying symbol for the revolution and undermined the interim military rulers who held power between Mubarak's fall and Morsi's rise.
(12) His small frame could be seen following the tree line until eventually it was swallowed by the dense forest cloaking the border.
(13) The hypothesis is advanced that while the Hawaiian Islands contain one of the world's largest percentages of endemic species in the flora, only a few of these species were used for illnesses, though many endemic species were used for building, tapa making, and the foundation of the elaborate and renowned feather cloaks.
(14) However the value of training at altitude for competition at sea level appears on the one hand to lack total acceptance amongst sports scientists; and on the other to hold some cloak of mystery for coaches who have yet to enjoy first hand experience.
(15) It’s like bike sharers are given a cloak of visibility when they set out on a journey.
(16) The pair, whose identities have not been revealed, were dressed in white robes and bowed their heads as they were whipped by officials wearing brown cloaks and masks with eye slits.
(17) We acknowledge the complexity and elegance of the theoretical substance and program algorithms of existing work in these disciplines, while simultaneously observing that many presentations of this material cloak the essential facts and concepts in unnecessary jargon and hyperbole.
(18) No mention of UK Muslim women who are unhappy with this antisocial black cloak.
(19) Ermine cloaks the coalition's first post-local election test on Wednesday.
(20) Those sentiments had been echoed in the seemingly very different context of Qom, the centre of Shia religious studies, where most women move about in full-length black cloaks – the chadors that are the ultimate expression of Shia modesty.
Shawl
Definition:
(n.) A square or oblong cloth of wool, cotton, silk, or other textile or netted fabric, used, especially by women, as a loose covering for the neck and shoulders.
(v. t.) To wrap in a shawl.
Example Sentences:
(1) A small picture of a pudgy-fingered young woman in a lumpily-painted yellow shawl sold for £16.2m at a Sotheby's auction last night, a record price for the artist - although since the last Vermeer to be auctioned was more than 80 years ago, and there is never likely to be another, a record was no surprise.
(2) In the next shot, Bergdahl is standing outside the vehicle, with a shawl over his shoulder, scanning the sky anxiously as two Black Hawk helicopters circle.
(3) Throwing the spotlight on male cancer research and doing his bit for shawl collars and sporty necklines.
(4) So we spoke in her bedroom, where she sat in pristine nightgown and shawl, in a rocking chair by the gold-curtained window, surrounded by a basket of tapestry wool (she was stitching a complex pattern for an evening bag), a walker, and a half-read Arnold Bennett novel, preparation for her book club – "Do you know, he's surprisingly good."
(5) "They were wearing kikwembe (a shawl worn by Congolese women) over their uniforms, and women's headscarves."
(6) Helam (she did not give a surname), 22, in her purple shawl, is taking her turn at the pump.
(7) Their eyes filled with tears, their hands would shift under their shawls or touch and rub an injury sustained during the attack.
(8) However, “like wearing a robe, a cross or a shawl, it is a conspicuous form of religious expression, but it needn’t have any impact on the rest of us”.
(9) He is equally attracted by lists, such as the one recording the first items ever stolen by a group of young thieves: "Six rabbits, silk shawls from home, a pair of shoes, a Dutch cheese, a few shillings from home, a coat and trousers, a bullock's heart".
(10) Sales of knitted or crocheted scarves and shawls also edged down in 2014.
(11) Most Afghans seemed to glide up the centre of the lobby staircase with their shawls trailing behind them like Venetian cloaks.
(12) In addition, shawl scrotum, nail hypoplasia and linear skin hypoplasia of the lower extremities were noted.
(13) You’ll pay more than you would at Old Delhi’s bazaars, but you’ll still get a bargain: Rajasthani leather satchels go for the equivalent of £12, hallmarked silver bracelets start at £14, cashmere shawls are £8, hand-embroidered silk purses £3 and hand-woven wool carpets start at only £8.
(14) That melodramatic, all-over-the-shop approach to vocal melody just screamed “hippy” at me, and seemed to be the aural equivalent of shawls, beads, headdresses and candles, all of which I suspected Kate Bush was wearing or surrounded by while she recorded the vocal.
(15) It makes me strong.” Francis co-hosted a multi-faith service in the Foundation Hall of the Memorial Museum, a rainbow tableau of robes, skullcaps and shawls.
(16) In addition to the well-known characteristics, persistent fetal pads, a shawl scrotum, and a high frequency of fractures were found in several patients.
(17) On the green drive from Sete Cidades, we pass a romério of men in rough shawls and bright scarves bearing metal-tipped staffs and chanting prayers whilst pilgrimaging around the island’s many churches.
(18) Many had green accessories such as prayer beads, shawls, wristbands and even green nail varnish."
(19) She delivered her remarks from a raised platform and said she was wearing a shawl belonging to the late Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto.
(20) Another said: "One cleric, among the crowd, wore a green shawl over his shoulders.