Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A square or oblong piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders.
- v. To cover with or as if with such a piece of cloth.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A Scotch form of shoal.
- n. A square or oblong article of dress, forming a loose covering for the shoulders, worn chiefly by women. Shawls are of several sizes and divers materials, as silk, cotton, hair, or wool; and occasionally they are made of a mixture of some or all of these staples. Some of the Eastern shawls, as those of Cashmere, are very beautiful and costly fabrics. The use of the shawl in Europe belongs almost entirely to the present century. Compare chudder, cashmere.
- To cover with a shawl; put a shawl on.
Wiktionary
- n. A square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders
- v. To wrap in a shawl.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A square or oblong cloth of wool, cotton, silk, or other textile or netted fabric, used, especially by women, as a loose covering for the neck and shoulders.
- v. To wrap in a shawl.
WordNet 3.0
- n. cloak consisting of an oblong piece of cloth used to cover the head and shoulders
Etymologies
- 1662. From Persian شال (šâl). (Wiktionary)
- Persian shāl, ultimately from Sanskrit śāṭī, cloth, sari. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“You look great and the shawl is a perfect addition to your big stash of gorgeously knitted lace.”
“If I'm remembering that right and not just having what my students call a "brain fart," then your shawl is actually smaller than if I match gauge?”
“The action drew off a corner of the scanty rag which she called a shawl, and revealed a small and round, yet exceedingly thin face, the black eyes of which seemed to gaze in solemn wonder at the scene of darkness visible which was revealed.”
Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure
“The light green shawl is just a piece of cotton fabric, hemmed all around, and it was really needed in the cool of the morning.”
“So after a few missteps (and one awful, awful incident where I had to rip the whole thing back to the start after I found the Little Bird “playing” with it), my first shawl is done.”
“I went ahead and cast on today, so my next shawl is already on the needles.”
“The dupatta, meanwhile, a double-sided scarf or shawl, is made of fine, dusty rose muslin edged with silver-threadedgota, or ribbon.”
“Our stream shawl is plain purple with the Chicago Cubs C in gold.”
“This handknitted lace shawl is made out of hand-dyed 50/50 Merino Wool/Silk blend laceweight yarn with rootbeer brown colored beads.”
“Made for Blogathon auction with designer's permission, this shawl is handknitted and hand dyed by Andrea O'Sullivan of Natural Obsessions and is inspired by the stories about the dryad who wanted to be a mermaid.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘shawl’.
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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window dressing
chemise, gossamer, tweed, pleat, fold, cuff, button, shirttails, ascot, cummerbund, velvet, silk and 104 more...
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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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courtneyah's Words
sigh, troglodyte, lithe, cambium, bark, poem, trochee, minute, ablution, hermeneutic, dogwood, mystique and 98 more...
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the worshipful company of haberdashers
NB: this list being not limited to haberdashery in the strictest sense, but also including items of the milliner's trade, the mercer's trade, and the tailor's trade, it is to be noted that I just r...
button, ribbon, damask, silk, satin, wool, gabardine, felt, trilby, haberdashery, velvet, linen and 138 more...
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~to delete~
pansexual, sapphire, jade, beryl, amber, licorice, culinary, bread, skirt, shawl, sable, banjo and 14 more...
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Patchwork
Square or rectangular pieces of fabric of various uses.
swatch, handkerchief, neckerchief, bandana, fogle, napkin, scarf, kaffiyeh, serviette, washcloth, placemat, mola and 16 more...
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Random and Lovely Words.
:)
scrupulous, evasive, dandy, lovely, complacent, pickle, tomato, jingle, chipper, telepathy, snicker, wry and 74 more...
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monosyllabics
snap, hex, blue, bum, waif, plush, crash, wist, twit, wreck, naff, whim and 17 more...
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the dressing room
vest, jacket, insignia, toga, fan, mantle, ermine, robe, snap, waistcoat, anorak, chaps and 71 more...
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wrap sheet
wrap, scarf, shawl, stole, fichu, kerchief, wimple, bandana, pashmina, ascot, cravat, muffler and 23 more...
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mkulob's Words
plankton, philanthropy, exhausted, irked, insane, medical, pulmonary, fistulla, hyperosmotic, mayham, electrocardiogram, coffee and 32 more...
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persian words in english
words originally derived from persian that have made it to english sometimes with several stops in intermediate languages
balcony, algorithm, arsenic, aubergine, azure, baghdad, beige, bombast, borax, bronze, caftan, calabash and 79 more...
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Poetrie: Recuerdo
RECUERDO
We were very tired, we were very merry—
We had gone back and forth all night upon the ferry.
It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable—
merry, ferry, stable, whistle, apple, pear, wan, bucketful, shawl, subway
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Leap of Malta Dolphins
interesting words from Francis Ebejer's novel
pungently, chortle, rent, limned, wraith, shawl, raucous, paean
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Clothing and such
slacks, galoshes, slicker, fascinator, mackintosh, kitten heel, jeggings, matchy-matchy, slippers, shawl
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