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Cloaked   /kloʊkt/   Listen
Cloaked

adjective
1.
Having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading.  Synonyms: disguised, masked.  "Masked threat"
2.
Covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak.  Synonyms: clothed, draped, mantled, wrapped.  "Fog-cloaked meadows" , "A beam draped with cobwebs" , "Cloud-wrapped peaks"


Cloak

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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"Cloaked" Quotes from Famous Books



... thing to-night is this, that though thy sin be very great, though thou hast a past life round thy neck enough to sink thee for ever out of the sight of God and all good men; a youth of sensuality now long and closely cloaked over with an after life of worldly prosperity, worldly decency, and worldly religion, all which only makes thee that whited sepulchre that Christ has in His eye when He speaks of thee with such a severe ...
— Bunyan Characters - First Series • Alexander Whyte
... had his first glimpse of the little cloaked man in a yellow hat. Faded and dingy as it was, this covering for his head made ...
— Within the Tides • Joseph Conrad
... Then the cloaked figure strode away from the palace; and the King, unseen by the guards, followed ...
— Time and the Gods • Lord Dunsany [Edward J. M. D. Plunkett]
... himself, intoning it in the deep voice one saves for poetry. It sounded wonderful to him in the luxury of hearing his own voice upon the water and indulging his own memory. The somber mood was perfect, in accord with the realm of shadow and silence where everything beautiful and living was cloaked in ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1920 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... even of the cold rain that sprinkled his forehead. The shining carriages at the door of the theatre filled him for once with a bitter revolt. But he dared not insinuate himself among the white-wrapped, scented women and elegant cloaked men, though he itched to enter the portico and study the pictures of Yvonne Rupert, of which he caught a glimpse. He found his way instead to the stage-door, and took up a position that afforded him a complete view of the comers and goers, if only ...
— Ghetto Comedies • Israel Zangwill


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