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cloak
[ klohk ]
noun
- a loose outer garment, as a cape or coat.
- something that covers or conceals; disguise; pretense:
He conducts his affairs under a cloak of secrecy.
verb (used with object)
- to cover with or as if with a cloak:
She arrived at the opera cloaked in green velvet.
- to hide; conceal:
The mission was cloaked in mystery.
cloak
/ kləʊk /
noun
- a wraplike outer garment fastened at the throat and falling straight from the shoulders
- something that covers or conceals
verb
- to cover with or as if with a cloak
- to hide or disguise
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Other Words From
- cloakless adjective
- under·cloak noun
- well-cloaked adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cloak1
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Example Sentences
Some have innocuous-seeming URLs like cardpool.com or giftcardgranny.com, which cloak the sinister operations.
This is the conspiratorial mind using skepticism as a cloak for intellectual laziness.
But there is something to be learned by the cloak-and-dagger world from Yousef and Ben Yitzhak.
Among the 50 new works included is a shawl made of used tea bags that resembles a ceremonial cloak.
Arm people with a cloak of anonymity and a shield of non-accountability, and watch the cavalcade of crazy charge.
On this errand he departed, wrapped tightly in his cloak, walking briskly through the now heavier rain.
As she spoke, she moved very slightly, letting her cloak fall open so that her long throat was exposed.
He dashed up to the drawing-room; his wife was coming forth then, her cloak and gloves on, her fan in her hand.
Rallying himself somewhat, he laid his hand upon the white cloak covering her shoulders.
On their entrance into the church, a brownish-red silk cloak, which concealed the whole of the uniform, was presented to each.
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