shawl has definitions from the field of clothing
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[ noun ] (clothing) cloak consisting of an oblong piece of cloth used to cover the head and shoulders

Used in print

(Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)

When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station_wagon , feeling in his trouser_cuffs for the ignition_key which he had dropped a moment before , she came_out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head , which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad , and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window .

She stood clutching her shawl around her shoulders until he had swung the car onto the road .

Related terms

cloak serape prayer_shawl

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 25106
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