cowl

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  1. noun The hood or hooded robe worn especially by a monk.
  2. noun A draped neckline on a woman's garment.
  3. noun A hood-shaped covering used to increase the draft of a chimney.

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  • The cowl, the red tights, and the yellow gloves and boots were all attached, as though he had been standing in the lab in full costume when I carefully picked the costume off the floor, and reached into its still-attached utility belt. —  F ;SF; - vol 093 issue 02 - August 1997
  • Once only, as the cowl was raised towards Chemosh, did the newcomer see the glitter of eyes that themselves seemed to be like two hard silver lights in the darkness. —  Title here
  • This cowl is a quick and easy knit and uses a great yarn, sKNITches —  fiddlesticknitting
  • You can hide yourself away under your cowl, that is a good place for you! —  Pater Peter. English.
  • What causes had contributed to the very radical change apparently effected in her mental attitude to the established ecclesiastical system, since she had in the preceding December discovered the monks, of whatever color their cowl might be, to be arrant "hypocrites" and the most "dangerous generation of human kind"--if, indeed, any such change in her mental attitude had really taken place at all, and her present zeal was not altogether assumed from political motives--we have not the means of determining with certainty. —  The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
 

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  1. Middle English coule, from Old English cugele, from Late Latin cuculla, from Latin cucullus, hood.

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  1. from Middle English cowle, coule (also covel, covele (written couel, couele), and cuvel, kuvele apparently after the Icelandic kufl), from Anglo-Saxon cūle, cuhle, cugle, cugele (the form *cufl given in some dictionaries is not authenticated) = Dutch kovel = Middle Low German kogel, koggel, kagel, also kovel, Low German kagel = Old High German cugelā, cugulā, Middle High German kugele, German kugel, kogel = Icelandic kufl (apparently from the Celtic, or from the supposed Anglo-Saxon form *cufl) = Old French coule, cole = Provencal cogula = Spanish cogulla = Portuguese cogula = Italian cuculla, cocolla, formerly also cucula, feminine, also cucullo, formerly cucuglio, cuculio, masculine, = Welsh cwcwll, cwfl = Irish cochal, from Latin cucullus, masculine, Late Latin also cuculla, feminine, a covering (for the head, for the feet, or for merchandise), a cap or hood fastened to a garment, in Middle Latin especially a monk's hood. Hence (from L.) cucullate, etc.
  2. Formerly spelled coul; from Middle English *couel, earlier cuvel (in comp. cuvel-staf, cowl-staff), from Old French cuvel, later cuveau, a little tub, diminutive of cure, a tub, vat, from Latin cupa, a tub, vat, cask, later a cup: see cup, coop.
 

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