cloak
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cloak/kləʊk/
▶noun
- 1 an overgarment that hangs loosely from the shoulders.
- 2 something that hides or covers: a cloak of secrecy.
- 3 (cloaks) Brit. a cloakroom.
- 1 dress in a cloak.
- 2 cover or hide: snow cloaked everything.
– origin ME: from OFr. cloke, dial. var. of cloche ‘bell, cloak’, from med. L. clocca ‘bell’.
'cloak' also found in these Oxford entries:
burnous
- cape
- capote
- Capuchin
- chaplain
- chasuble
- chlamydia
- chlamydomonas
- chlamydospore
- chlamys
- cloak-and-dagger
- cloche
- cope
- djellaba
- dolman
- domino
- escape
- gown
- grog
- hood
- limousine
- manteau
- mantle
- mantlet
- mourning cloak
- opera cloak
- pall
- palliate
- pallium
- pelisse
- scapular
- serape
- tog
