shroud

Object

• figure: A shrouded figure has been snapped climbing the Tulip staircase at the Queens House in Greenwich.
• tree: A thick mist shrouded the trees of Pirang forest first thing this morning, confining a Wahlberg's Eagle to its roosting branch.

Adjective modifier

• woolen: Designed to benefit the woolen industry, all dead were to be buried in woolen shrouds with a fine imposed for non-compliance.
• black: The fear flowed after her, like a black shroud, flapping in the wind.
• white: The body is then washed and wrapped in a white linen shroud.

Modifying Another Word

• frequently: Its golden domes suddenly rise from the mist that frequently shrouds visiting cruise ships.
• completely: That mystery which surrounds the word in the natural world shrouds only too completely its spiritual import.
• still: Still shrouded in clouds of woe I went to the count.
• often: That they are often shrouded in light mists makes them appear all the more mysterious.

Noun used with modifier

• burial: A state with a new rusty iron curtain would become a burial shroud for Russia.
• linen: The body is then washed and wrapped in a white linen shroud.
• radiator: It may be helpful to remove the radiator shroud in order to have room to remove the fan from the engine bay.
• fan: Unbolt the fan shroud from the radiator ( top two screws ).

Preposition: in

• secrecy: The special recipe has been shrouded in secrecy within the Guinness family for hundreds of years.
• mist: Whiskey's history is shrouded now in the mists of time.
• mystery: The origin of the compass is shrouded in mystery.
• obscurity: The origin of Methodism in Flash is shrouded in obscurity, .
• scaffolding: It lingered, shrouded in scaffolding, its future uncertain for five years.
• fog: I'm reminded of a post-industrial Angkor Wat, or the islands of the Andaman Coast near Phuket shrouded in fog.

Preposition: of

secrecy: The shroud of secrecy covering these contacts was demanded by Renamo, he said.