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SHAWL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cloak consisting of an oblong piece of cloth used to cover the head and shoulders
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("shawl" is a kind of...):
cloak (a loose outer garment)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shawl"):
prayer shawl; tallis; tallith ((Judaism) a shawl with a ritually knotted fringe at each corner; worn by Jews at morning prayer)
sarape; serape (a long brightly colored shawl; worn mainly by Mexican men)
Context examples:
It was growing quite dusk, however, before they were in the neighbourhood of Uppercross, and there had been total silence among them for some time, Henrietta leaning back in the corner, with a shawl over her face, giving the hope of her having cried herself to sleep; when, as they were going up their last hill, Anne found herself all at once addressed by Captain Wentworth.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
And now, if I do but step into the parlour, I can see her once more, with over eighty years of saintly life behind her, silver-haired, placid-faced, with her dainty ribboned cap, her gold-rimmed glasses, and her woolly shawl with the blue border.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Making the same low, dreary, wretched moaning in her shawl, she went away.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I hurried on my frock and a shawl; I withdrew the bolt and opened the door with a trembling hand.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Yes, yes, a thick, warm shawl would be a friendly thing to take the little mother.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I think I will have two shawls, Fanny.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
She was afterwards looking for her shawl—Frank Churchill was looking also—it was growing dusk, and the room was in confusion; and how they parted, Mr. Knightley could not tell.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I flung the warm shawl over her, and drew the edges tight round her neck, for I dreaded lest she should get some deadly chill from the night air, unclad as she was.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Their huge, membranous wings were closed by folding their fore-arms, so that they sat like gigantic old women, wrapped in hideous web-colored shawls, and with their ferocious heads protruding above them.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Christchurch townsfolk stood huddled about the Bridge of Avon, the women pulling tight their shawls and the men swathing themselves in their gaberdines, while down the winding path from the castle came the van of the little army, their feet clanging on the hard, frozen road.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
