cloak

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  Little red riding-hood, wearing her cloak, stands in the doorway
• WordNet 3.6
  • v cloak cover with or as if with a cloak "cloaked monks"
  • v cloak cover as if with clothing "the mountain was clothed in tropical trees"
  • v cloak hide under a false appearance "He masked his disappointment"
  • n cloak a loose outer garment
  • n cloak anything that covers or conceals
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TWO ASSASSINS IN LONG CLOAKS

• • Cloak A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women.
  • Cloak That which conceals; a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a fair pretense; a mask; a cover. "No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak ."
  • v. t Cloak To cover with, or as with, a cloak; hence, to hide or conceal. "Now glooming sadly, so to cloak her matter."
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• • n cloak Properly, a loose outer garment without sleeves, worn by either sex as a protection from the weather: now frequently used, though erroneously, for a sleeved outer wrap worn by women. In the sixteenth century the cloak was an article of every-day wear, and was made with large loose armholes, through which the sleeves of the undergarment were passed, as is seen in portraits of Henry VIII. and the nobles of his court. Later it was shortened, and became in common use little more than a cape, though large and long cloaks were still used in traveling. In the latter part of the seventeenth century cloaks were abandoned, except for protection from cold and wet, on account of the changing fashion of the outer coat. Under the name of Spanish cloak, this garment was worn from about 1800 to 1840 in Great Britain and America, the shape being a half-circle; it had a broad collar, often of fur or of velvet, which was continued down the edges of the cloak on both sides in breadths of a foot or more. When in use, one of these edges was drawn across the breast and flung over the opposite shoulder with the breadth of fur or velvet turned outward, so as to form a decorative draping, falling from the shoulder behind. The same garment is still worn as the most common winter dress in certain Italian cities.
  • n cloak Figuratively, that which conceals; a cover; a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a fair pretense.
  • cloak To cover with or as with a cloak.
  • cloak Figuratively, to cover up; hide; conceal.
  • cloak Synonyms To hide, conceal, mask, cover, veil, screen.
  • cloak To intrigue; hold secret council.
  • n cloak In mollusks, same as mantle or pallium.
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• • n Cloak klōk a loose outer garment: a covering: that which conceals: a disguise, pretext
  • v.t Cloak to clothe with a cloak: to cover: to conceal
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• Spanish Proverb

  

  “Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker.”
• Thomas Carlyle

  

  “Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, it's fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; it's a mutual hostility.”
• Johann Kaspar Lavater

  

  “The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.”
• Bible

  

  “If someone takes your coat, give him your cloak as well; if he makes you go a mile with him, go with him two. [Mathew]”
• Anne Fox

  

  “Of all the characters of cruelty, I consider the most despicable the one that cloaks himself in a garb of mercy.”
• Thomas Fuller

  

  “Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.”

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