cloak

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A man in a cloak

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• (US) IPA: /'klok/
• Rhymes: -əʊk

Noun

cloak (plural cloaks)

1. A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, The China Governess^[1]:

     ‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’

2. A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.

   Night hid her movements with its cloak of darkness.

3. (figuratively)  That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.
   • South

     No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak.

4. (Internet)  A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.

Derived terms

• cloak and dagger

Translations

cape

• Bulgarian: плащ (bg) (plašt), наметало (bg) (nametalo), аба (bg) (abá) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斗篷 (cmn) (dǒupeng)

• Czech: plášť (cs) m
• Dutch: mantel (nl) m
• Esperanto: mantelo (eo)
• Finnish: viitta (fi)
• French: pelisse (fr) f, pèlerine (fr) f
• German: Umhang (de) m, Pelerine (de) f
• Greek: κάπα (el) (kápa) f
• Hungarian: köpeny (hu), köpönyeg (hu)
• Icelandic: skikkja (is) f, möntull (is) m
• Irish: brat (ga) m

• Japanese: マント (ja) (manto), クローク (ja) (kurōku)
• Jèrriais: cliôque m, manté m
• Maori: tūpuni (mi)
• Norwegian: kappe (no) f
• Polish: peleryna (pl) f
• Portuguese: capa (pt) f, manto (pt) m
• Russian: плащ (ru) (plašč) m, мантия (ru) (mántija) f
• Scottish Gaelic: cleòc (gd) m
• Serbian: plašt m, ogrtač m
• Serbo-Croatian: plašt (sh), pelerina (sh), kep (sh)
• Slovene: plašč (sl) m, ogrinjalo (sl) n
• Spanish: capa (es)
• Swedish: slängkappa (sv) c, mantel (sv) c

blanket-like covering, often metaphorical

• Bulgarian: покривало (bg) (pokrivalo) n
• Czech: plášť (cs) m
• Finnish: viitta (fi)
• German: Deckmantel (de) m
• Greek: μανδύας (el) (mandyas) m

• Portuguese: véu (pt) m
• Russian: покров (ru) (pokróv) m
• Spanish: embozo (es), velo (es) m
• Swedish: mantel (sv) c, täckmantel (sv) c

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Translations to be checked

• Spanish: capa f

See also

• burnoose, burnous, burnouse
• domino costume

Verb

cloak (third-person singular simple present cloaks, present participle cloaking, simple past and past participle cloaked)

1. To cover as with a cloak.
2. (science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.

   The ship cloaked before entering the enemy sector of space.

Derived terms

• cloaking device

Translations

to cover as with a cloak

• Finnish: verhota (fi) (tr.), verhoutua (fi) (intr.)
• German: verhüllen (de)
• Italian: ammantare (it)

• Spanish: embozar (es)
• Swedish: dölja (sv), skyla (sv)