shawl
/ʃɔːl
/noun
A piece of fabric worn by women over the shoulders or head or wrapped round a baby.Gypsy and ethnic references appear in a number of outfits including Spanish style poncho skirts, shawls and classic Native American dresses....
- And floor-mounted coat racks are a natural for cloaks, gowns, shawls and scarves.
- Knitwear includes shawls, scarves and berets with a selection of babywear also available.
Derivatives
shawled
- During the nineteenth century the shawl was found by many women to be a cheaper substitute for the cloak and even today older rural women might be shawled.
- But I see them as human and architectural elements in a landscape of devastation: shawled women and broken pillars, against early daylight, as with the Christ figure in Piero's Resurrection.
- Elsewhere, a determined woman, shawled and barefoot, stands at the prow of a ship.
Origin
Early 17th century: from Urdu and Persian šāl, probably from Shāliāt, the name of a town in India.
Rhymes
- recruit
- recruitable
- recruital
- recruitee
- recruiter
- recruithood
- recruiting book
- recruiting drum
- recruiting order
- recruiting station
- recruitment
- recruitship
- recrystallise
- recrystallizable
- recrystallization
- recrystallization temperature
- recrystallize
- rec. sec.
- rect.
- recta
- rectal
- rectal gland
- rectally
- rectal pad
- rectangle