(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.
Shawm
Definition:
(n.) A wind instrument of music, formerly in use, supposed to have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the music, as in this summer’s Roman season: the composer Claire van Kampen , licensed by Globe boss Dominic Dromgoole, worked around the idea that the Romans imported their festive music, and its instruments, from North Africa, and got hold of Moroccan and rustic Spanish drums and buzz-booming shawms .