cloak
English
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Alternative forms
- cloke (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English cloke, from Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 2 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value "ONF." is not valid. See WT:LOL, WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF., from Medieval Latin clocca (“travelers' cape, literally “a bell”, so called from the garment’s bell-like shape”), of unknown origin.
Doublet of clock.
Pronunciation
Audio (US): (file) - Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈkloʊk/
- Rhymes: -əʊk
Noun
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, in 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.’
- A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.
- Night hid her movements with its cloak of darkness.
- (figurative) That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Thessalonians 2:5:
- For neither at any time vsed wee flattering wordes, as yee knowe, nor a cloke of couetousnesse, God is witnesse:
- Robert South
- No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak.
- (Internet) A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.
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Translations
cape
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blanket-like covering, often metaphorical
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See also
Verb
cloak (third-person singular simple present cloaks, present participle cloaking, simple past and past participle cloaked)
- (transitive) To cover as with a cloak.
- (transitive, figurative) To hide or conceal.
- (science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.
- The ship cloaked before entering the enemy sector of space.
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