cloak
noun/kləʊk/
/kləʊk/
- [countable] a type of coat that has no arms, fastens at the neck and hangs loosely from the shoulders, worn especially in the past
- She stormed off, her cloak flying behind her.
- She threw a heavy cloak over her shoulders.
- a flowing black cloak
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- heavy
- thick
- hooded
- …
- be wrapped in
- drape
- throw
- …
- billow
- flow
- flutter
- …
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- [singular] (literary) a thing that hides or covers somebody/something
- They left under the cloak of darkness.
- The author prefers to hide behind a cloak of anonymity.
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French cloke, dialect variant of cloche ‘bell, cloak’ (from its bell shape), from medieval Latin clocca ‘bell’. Compare with clock.
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