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Cloak   /kloʊk/   Listen
Cloak

noun
1.
Anything that covers or conceals.
2.
A loose outer garment.
verb
(past & past part. cloaked; pres. part. cloaking)
1.
Hide under a false appearance.  Synonyms: dissemble, mask.
2.
Cover as if with clothing.  Synonyms: clothe, drape, robe.
3.
Cover with or as if with a cloak.



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"Cloak" Quotes from Famous Books



... altogether in an informal manner. Some of the guests had carriages waiting, others went down in hansoms. Ernestine was rather late in coming downstairs and found Trent waiting for her in the hall. She was wearing a wonderful black satin opera cloak with pale green lining, her maid had touched up her hair and wound a string of pearls around her neck. He watched her as she came slowly down the stairs, buttoning her gloves, and looking at him with eyebrows faintly raised to see him waiting there alone. ...
— A Millionaire of Yesterday • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... be constructed on a larger and more generous principle than those of women are nowadays. Her face was longer. With her curls and her bonnet and her bombazine,—which she wore in all seasons,—she was in complete harmony with the sofa. She had thrown aside the storm cloak which had become so familiar to pedestrians in certain parts ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... our altar stood a luckless pair, Brought by strong passions and a warrant there; By long rent cloak, hung loosely, strove the bride From every eye, what all perceived, to hide. While the boy-bridegroom, shuffling in his pace, Now hid awhile, and then exposed his face; As shame alternately with anger strove The brain, confused with muddy ale, to move, In haste and stammering he perform'd his ...
— Crabbe, (George) - English Men of Letters Series • Alfred Ainger
... only a convenient cloak to conceal his turpitudes. Poker playing, automobile joy rides, hard drinking became the daily curriculum. In town rows and orgies of every description he was soon a recognized leader. Scandal followed scandal until he was threatened with expulsion. Then his father heard of it and there was a ...
— The Third Degree - A Narrative of Metropolitan Life • Charles Klein and Arthur Hornblow
... little child in the red cloak has!" said a visitor in Sunday-school to a teacher, as together they listened to the children raising ...
— Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 10, March 8, 1914 • Various


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