Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a shawl.

Etymologies

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shawl +‎ -like

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Examples

  • With a surprisingly dexterous swirl, he twirled the cloth out and let it settle, shawllike, around his shoulders.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • It was a familiar face, I was certain I knew it: a bareheaded young man with shoulder-length hair and the beginning of a smile, wearing a long black winter coat with a huge shawllike fur collar and foot-long fur cuffs, holding a pair of white gloves.

    Time and Again Finney, Jack 1995

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