shroud
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Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English shroud, from Old English sċrūd, from Proto-Germanic *skrūdą. Cognate with Old Norse skrúð (“the shrouds of a ship”) ( > Danish, Norwegian skrud (“splendid attire”)).
Noun[edit]
shroud (plural shrouds)
- That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
- 1636, George Sandys, Paraphrase upon the Psalms and Hymns dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments
- swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds
- 2019 April 25, Samanth Subramanian, “Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Every time we came a research area, we had to pause while the scientists threw grey shrouds over prototypes that I wasn’t to see.
- 1636, George Sandys, Paraphrase upon the Psalms and Hymns dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments
- Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 2
- Yet let us goǃ England is in her shroud – we may not enchain ourselves to a corpse.
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:
- a dead man in his shroud
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 2
- That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
- 1812–1818, Lord Byron, “(please specify |canto=I to IV)”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: Printed for John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], OCLC 22697011, (please specify the stanza number):
- Jura answers through her misty shroud.
- A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
- 1618, George Chapman, Homeric Hymns
- The shroud to which he won / His fair-eyed oxen.
- 1554, John Withals, A Dictionarie in English and Latine
- a vault, or shroud, as under a church
- 1618, George Chapman, Homeric Hymns
- (nautical) One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, OCLC 1167497017:
- Then - a shock of water, a wild rush of boiling foam, and I was clinging for my life to the shroud, ay, swept straight out from it like a flag in a gale.
- One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
- (astronautics) A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
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Translations[edit]
dress for the dead
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mast support
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Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English schrouden (> Anglo-Latin scrudāre), from Middle English schroud (“shroud”) (see above).
Verb[edit]
shroud (third-person singular simple present shrouds, present participle shrouding, simple past and past participle shrouded)
- To cover with a shroud.
- 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:
- The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.
- To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.
- The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.
- The truth behind their weekend retreat was shrouded in obscurity.
- 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], OCLC 37026674, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
- One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen.
- 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour […][2], London: Printed by J.M. for H. Herringman, published 1667, Act III, scene ii, page 30:
- Moon ſlip behind ſome Cloud, ſome Tempeſt riſe / And blow out all the Stars that light the Skies, / To ſhrowd my ſhame.
- To take shelter or harbour.
- 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], H[enry] Lawes, editor, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, OCLC 228715864; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, OCLC 1113942837:
- If your stray attendance be yet lodged, / Or shroud within these limits.
Translations[edit]
to veil or conceal
Etymology 3[edit]
Variant of shred.
Noun[edit]
shroud (plural shrouds)
- The branching top of a tree; foliage.
- 1611, King James Version, “xxxi.iii”, in Ezekiel[3], Barker edition:
- Behold, the Assyrian was a Cedar in Lebanon with faire branches, and with a shadowing shrowd, and of an hie stature, and his top was among the thicke boughes.
Verb[edit]
shroud (third-person singular simple present shrouds, present participle shrouding, simple past and past participle shrouded)
- (transitive, UK, dialect) To lop the branches from (a tree).
- Synonym: shrood
References[edit]
Shroud (sailing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- shroud in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- shroud at OneLook Dictionary Search
Middle English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Old English sċrūd, from Proto-Germanic *skrūdą.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
shroud (plural shroudes)
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “shrǒud, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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