Definitions
Examples
“Beginning pre-war, in the 1930s, there were groups of industrialists, which we found out were collaborating in the shadows, the "cagoule" they were called ... and they went on to build and lead (or already were) some of the biggest companies in France (L'Oreal, Renault, etc) just as Standard Oil and others had done in the U.S.”
The Huffington Post: Vivian Norris de Montaigu: Choosing Sides in a 1930s-like Economy
“The ECC is old, quiet and draped in a cladding of house dust and summer‑tog cagoule.”
The Guardian: IPL4 is the ideal accompaniment to the parochial intrigue of ECC112 | Barney Ronay
“The rain rattled on a modern cagoule hood, rather than on a Gallic pattern helmet.”
“Best go with the sheet and you can put your cagoule on underneath.”
The Guardian: What is it about the English and their obsession with ghosts?
“I did not get up many Munros last year and so have missed the genteel banter of the wellies and cagoule brigade: "It's still raining"; "There's a good three-for-two offer at Tiso's"; and: "I cannae wait to get these aff.”
The Guardian: 2010 – a Mourinho of a year, a special one | Kevin McKenna
“Just the list of essentials each competitor was obliged to carry three Sundays ago had a whiff of those resolute years when the race was developed, a cagoule being listed as a necessity.”
“I could walk there in my dripping cagoule and muddy boots and spend an hour browsing the shelves.”
The Guardian: My favourite independent bookshop: Sam Read, Grasmere
“A cagoule and brolly might seem sufficient but to be safe it might be best to take along a small boat.”
“When you're wearing a cagoule all day, it's not that much hassle to wrap a jumper around your waist.”
“Granted, sweet nothings won't be heard on this bit of the four-mile route, and nobody looks their best in a cagoule – but it's not every day you get to climb behind a waterfall.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cagoule’.
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Irish English that's not in American ...
Well-known phrases in Irish English that aren't understood in American English.
or next offer, hoover, plaster, soother, chimnea, craic, bits and bobs, grinds, jumper, mum, chancer, ticks all the boxes and 60 more...
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cloudjuice's Words
schadenfreude, sordid, promulgate, erratic, erroneous, amalgamate, sesquipedalian, incongruous, psychosis, etymology, simulacrum, serendipity and 988 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, C
cryptoxanthin, convent, calcar, chuckle, campanile, covet, complexion, campestral, chirography, counterscarp, caliginous, catabolism and 722 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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Phrases and words I didn't know
give up the ghost, ninja'd, coal-hole, hotting up, chancer, clave, salaryman, turf accountant, cremains, autoclave, hummingbird mind, gank and 175 more...
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Ute
Durable items invented by Hom. Sap.
alpenhorn, matchbox, plinth, pillow, cantilever, fulcrum, troika, cloverleaf, nib, wheelbarrow, dictabelt, cockpit and 184 more...
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Baby, It's Cold Outside!
Do as your mom says and put on a jacket.
frock coat, doublet, reefer, cutaway, morning coat, tailcoat, dinner jacket, smoking jacket, juste-au-corps, jerkin, basque, spencer and 134 more...
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Fashion and Textiles
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other aspects of childhood
Tweets
Looking for tweets for cagoule.
knitandpurl "I left Stockwell in cagoule and cashmere pullover, but as I gain Putney Bridge I strip to my own T-shirt and sit at a zinc-topped table outside a branch of Carluccio's, sipping a latte and eating an almond pastry."
Psychogeography by Will Self, 28 Oct 11, 2010
bilby "The beauty of Pakistan is that you don’t know that they’re going to do this. Although it seems fairly typical, there’s also a good chance they could crumple like a paper cagoule."
- King Cricket, Quite simply the most watchable side in cricket, kingcricket.co.uk, 5 Nov 2009. Nov 5, 2009