caul

• The Muse of Fire followed the Archon funeral barge out of the Pleroma into the Kenoma, slipped out of its pleromic wake like a newborn emerg­ing from a caul, and made its own weak-fusion way to our next stop on the tour, a world known only as 25-25-261B. —  Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)
• Quickly, with trembling fingers, I bound my hair at my nape with the loose knot we called lover's-haste in the Night Court, that will stay without pins or a caul. —  Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel 02 - Kushiel's Chosen
• Delaunay liked the look of my hair caught in the silk mesh of a caul, restrained in its abundance. —  Carey, Jaqueline - Kushiel's Dart orig
• I wore the sangoire cloak over my gown—a modest one of brown velvet—and had my hair caught up in a black mesh caul, but I might as well have come tumbled straight from the bedchamber. —  Carey, Jaqueline - Kushiel's Dart orig
• Secondly, that final track 'Marais Le Nit' or 'The Night Marsh' (30 minutes or so of a muted chorus of frog calls and thrumming crickets) which seems to have caused to much consternation across the web - to me it acts as a kind of caul that hangs lightly across the rest of the album, an index of the elemental nature of the themes contained within it. —  The Line Of Best Fit

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