balaclava

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Police said a second man wearing a balaclava was sitting in the van.

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  1. noun A warm woolen hood covering the head and neck, worn especially by mountain climbers and skiers.
  2. noun A similarly styled hood often covering the shoulders, as worn by soldiers and sailors or as protective clothing.

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  • His face is blotched red and white inside the porthole of his balaclava, puffed beyond all normal expression. —  EBSCOhost
  • If working in the dusk/dark you should also consider wearing a balaclava, or blacking out your face - you would be surprised how well white faces stand out in light Sometimes the backdrop is important. —  Murder Inc. Book
  • He was wearing a black balaclava, but he was clearly a white man—rings of his skin were visible around his blue eyes. —  Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January 2002
  • He has only been able to give a brief description of his attacker as wearing dark-coloured clothing, and either a balaclava or ski mask.
  • A particularly ferocious balaclava-wearing mob broke into a closed RBS bank branch and stole keyboards, using them to break windows. —  t r u t h o u t
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