cloak
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Northern French cloque (“travelling cloak”), from Medieval Latin clocca, ("travelers' cape", literally "a bell", so called from the garment's bell-like shape).
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Noun[edit]
cloak (plural cloaks)
- 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.’
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, The China Governess[1]:
- A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.
- Night hid her movements with its cloak of darkness.
- (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.
- South
- (Internet) A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.
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Translations[edit]
cape
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blanket-like covering, often metaphorical
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Verb[edit]
cloak (third-person singular simple present cloaks, present participle cloaking, simple past and past participle cloaked)
- To cover as with a cloak.
- (science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.
- The ship cloaked before entering the enemy sector of space.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to cover as with a cloak
