SHAWL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shawl mean? 

• SHAWL (noun)
  The noun SHAWL has 1 sense:

1. cloak consisting of an oblong piece of cloth used to cover the head and shoulders

  Familiarity information: SHAWL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHAWL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cloak consisting of an oblong piece of cloth used to cover the head and shoulders

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("shawl" is a kind of...):

cloak (a loose outer garment)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shawl"):

prayer shawl; tallis; tallith ((Judaism) a shawl with a ritually knotted fringe at each corner; worn by Jews at morning prayer)

sarape; serape (a long brightly colored shawl; worn mainly by Mexican men)

 Context examples 

I took a big, heavy shawl and ran out.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The first was a tall lady with dark hair, dark eyes, and a pale and large forehead; her figure was partly enveloped in a shawl, her countenance was grave, her bearing erect.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Then Martha arose, and gathering her shawl about her, covering her face with it, and weeping aloud, went slowly to the door.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There's one thing you can do well, Jo, that is, wear a shawl.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There was snow on the ground, and she was sitting in a shawl.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

From Frank Churchill's face, where he thought he saw confusion suppressed or laughed away, he had involuntarily turned to hers; but she was indeed behind, and too busy with her shawl.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Its strange shawl suddenly unfurled, spread, and fluttered as a pair of leathery wings.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I sprang from my bed, wrapped a shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here and there among the moving throng of dark jerkins and of white surcoats were scattered dashes of scarlet and blue, the whimples or shawls of the women.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

‘I have been standing here for a quarter of an hour, sir,’ said he; ‘only one person has passed during that time—a woman, tall and elderly, with a Paisley shawl.’

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)