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Another word for shawl

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Noun

  1. A garment wrapped about a person

    See also:

    put-on

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Another word for shawl

Noun
  1. See also:

    wrap

    muffler

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • Princess Mary threw a shawl over her head and ran to meet the newcomer.

  • Suddenly her door opened softly and her old nurse, Praskovya Savishna, who hardly ever came to that room as the old prince had forbidden it, appeared on the threshold with a shawl round her head.

  • One female figure moved forward, wrapping a shawl around Evelyn's shoulders and placing a translator on her ear.

  • A tradesman's wife was showing a rent in her shawl and telling how much the shawl had cost; another was saying that all silk goods had now got dear.

  • In 1890 General Maclean, the British consul-general, reported that there were 650 silk, 40 carpet and 320 shawl looms at work.

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