shrouded

English

Etymology

From Middle English schrouded, equivalent to shroud +‎ -ed.

Adjective

shrouded (comparative more shrouded, superlative most shrouded)

1. Wearing, or provided with a shroud.
2. Concealed or hidden from sight, as if by a shroud.
   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter II, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, →OCLC:

     She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.

   • 2022 January 12, Chris Hegg, “The secret railway in the woods”, in RAIL, number 948, page 34:

     I suspect that this large and complex military railway system, shrouded in official secrecy for most of its operational life, remains unknown to many people.

Derived terms

• shrouded gear
• shrouded propeller

Verb

shrouded

1. simple past and past participle of shroud