cloak
cloak (klōk)
noun
- a loose outer garment, usually sleeveless and extending to or below the knees
- something that covers or conceals; disguise
Etymology: ME cloke, cloak < OFr < ML clocca (see clock), a bell, cloak: so called from its bell-like appearance
transitive verb
- to cover with or as with a cloak
- to conceal; hide
cloak
n.
An outer garment
mantle, wrap, shawl; see coat 1.Something that covers or hides
pretext, cover, mask; see camouflage 1, coat 3, disguise.
Converse of object
- tatter: Pulling her tattered cloak around her shoulders she proceeded up the steps.
- don: As the Ottoman Turks lost ground to the West, they increasingly donned the cloak of the Caliphate.
- wear: They wore a red cloak with a shield of the arms of St George on the left shoulder.
Adjective modifier
- hooded: L took off all her ( black ) clothes and put on the Goddess ' black hooded cloak.
- scarlet: No more the well trained horses, no more the scarlet cloaks, No more the great golden plumes.
- woolen: For ordinary times they would just wear a simple woolen cloak over their tunic.
- ragged: He wears a long ragged cloak and an old wide-brimmed hat, so you can't see his eyes.
- purple: And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak, and put his own clothes on him.
Modifies a noun
- cupboard: Hall A short set of steps from the main hall leads up to a further hall area with a large recessed cloaks cupboard.
Noun used with modifier
- invisibility: Believe it or not, an invisibility cloak is one subject of these new collaborations.
- velvet: And a velvet cloak drags across south Ontario and falls here on the small brick farm house.
- downstairs: Large sitting room with exposed beams and fireplace with log burner, downstairs cloaks, 2 staircases.
Preposition: in
- secrecy: For obvious reasons, their existence was cloaked in secrecy which remains habitual for many veterans even today.
- mist: The balanced stone outcrops cloaked in a gray mist looked prehistoric and compounded the eerie atmosphere.
Preposition: of
- invisibility: I got away by casting a cloak of invisibility about myself.
- anonymity: However, the real problem may be the cloak of anonymity behind which bureaucrats like Mr Stewart prefer to hide.
- secrecy: In many cases there seems to be a cloak of secrecy drawn around them.
- respectability: The one that oppresses under the cloak of respectability and the protection of citizens.
- darkness: You walk around in your cloak of darkness, Too blind to see the light.
Preposition: with
- hood: On the threshold stood a man in a long black cloak with a loose hood like a monk's.
In Baxter's view, the care of external goods should only lie on the shoulders of the'saint like a light cloak, which can be thrown aside at any moment.' But fate decreed that the cloak should become an iron cage.
The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.
Browse dictionary entries near cloak
- cloaca
- CLNP
- CLN
- clk
- clivia
- Clive
- clitoris
- clitoridectomy
- Clisthenes
- clique
- cloak-and-dagger
- cloakroom
- clobber
- clochard
- cloche
- clock
- clock radio
- clocking pulse
- clocklike
- clockmaker
