shawl
English
Etymology
From Persian شال (šâl); see there for more.
Pronunciation
Noun
shawl (plural shawls)
- A square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders, typically by women. [from 1662]
- She wears her shawl when it's cold outside.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:
- Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, […] , and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.
- 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 26:
- Jessamy turned. Her uplifted candle showed a dark handsome young women in a black dress. She wore a wide shawl over her head which hung down on either side, only partially hiding a starched, white apron..
- A fold of wrinkled flesh under the lips and neck of a bloodhound, used in scenting.
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Translations
a square piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders
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Verb
shawl (third-person singular simple present shawls, present participle shawling, simple past and past participle shawled)
- (transitive) To wrap in a shawl.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Thackeray to this entry?)
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