discloakv.
/dɪˈskləʊk/, U.S. /dɪˈskloʊk/ rare after 17th cent.
transitive. = uncloak v. (literal and figurative). Also intransitive.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (transitive)] > strip or undress a person > divest of specific garments > cloak or mantle
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1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love iii. v. sig. F3v Now goe in, dis-cloake your selfe. View more context for this quotation
1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. l. sig. R2v That feignes what was not, and discloakes a soule.
1671 R. Head & F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue III. xviii. 267 I was met by those three who had the night before Dis-cloak'd me.
1875 Janesville (Wisconsin) Gaz. 29 Jan. We floated along in the glowing wake of reform and neared that sphere where mystery discloaks itself.
1968 Fantasy & Sci. Fiction Jan. 84/2 They arrived to find a cluster of clanspeople checking in their boldly patterned cloaks... It was interclan courtesy,..not to discloak until actually arriving at the door of one's host.
1996 H. Youngbear-Tibbetts Struggle to preserve Turangawaewae (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Wisconsin) v. 230 In New Zealand, this cadre of activists..have all too often been..denigrated for their ‘cheek’ in discloaking the disgenuineness of espoused ideals of the post-colonial state.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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