Definitions
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
shawl .
Etymologies
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shawl + -like
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Examples
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With a surprisingly dexterous swirl, he twirled the cloth out and let it settle, shawllike, around his shoulders.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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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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