cloak
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
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to cover with or as if with a cloak.
She arrived at the opera cloaked in green velvet.
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to hide; conceal.
The mission was cloaked in mystery.
noun
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a wraplike outer garment fastened at the throat and falling straight from the shoulders
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something that covers or conceals
verb
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to cover with or as if with a cloak
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to hide or disguise
Other Word Forms
- cloakless adjective
- undercloak noun
- well-cloaked adjective
Etymology
Origin of cloak
1175–1225; Middle English cloke (< Old French ) < Medieval Latin cloca, variant of clocca bell-shaped cape, bell; clock 1
Example Sentences
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Maybe it was the girl, all alone in a shower of shooting stars, her cloak whipping in the wind.
From Literature
"We shouldn't just think dinosaurs are mammals cloaked in scales and feathers," Holtz said.
From Science Daily
He was still several blocks away when a woman wearing a wide-brimmed bonnet and a fur cloak approached.
From Literature
She picked up her cloak and went to the door.
From Literature
"The night the cloak came off," blazed a headline in the Indian Express newspaper.
From Barron's
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