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Answer for the clue "Anything that covers or conceals ", 5 letters:
cloak

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Word definitions for cloak in dictionaries

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n. anything that covers or conceals a loose outer garment

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cloak \Cloak\ (kl[=o]k; 110), n. [Of. cloque cloak (from the bell-like shape), bell, F. cloche bell; perh. of Celtic origin and the same word as E. clock. See 1st Clock .] A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. ...

Usage examples of cloak.

He also took off a cloak of fine material, in which he had dressed himself that day, and dressed the king in it, and sent for some colored boots, which he put on his feet, and he put a large silver ring on his finger, because he had heard that he had admired greatly a silver ornament worn by one of the sailors.

Many of the people afoot had worn and ragged coats, breeches out at the knee, dresses with tattered hems, and threadbare cloaks or none at all.

Whigs, was constantly using its principle and its prestige as a cloak for the aggrandizement of special interests.

Nest, but she had given glowing details, cloaked it with such an aura of glamour they had been agog with excitement.

He unclasped the silver agraffe at his neck and swung the cloak from his shoulders.

The Wing Commander had to penetrate the veil of bitterness with which the pilot cloaked his account to see the fine airmanship that had got Robert down at all.

Her heavy cloak, though far from alamodality, was of excellent material and well made.

Waiting until all was quiet, Rolan mounted in front of Alec and handed him back the cloak.

Giving them a polite nod, Alec tried to hurry past but one caught the edge of his cloak and yanked him roughly into their midst.

He gave Alec his belt dagger and a small, razorlike blade from the neck of his cloak.

Twitching his dusty cloak back, he showed Alec the wooden peg strapped to the stump of his left leg.

Cold with dread, Alec found the driver and helped him bundle Seregil, well wrapped in cloaks and blankets, into the carriage.

Ripping off his cloak, Alec gathered the hem of it in one hand and tossed the other end at the upthrust corner, hoping to catch it with the hood.

In a grey cloak and a round, grey hat with gold cords, followed closely by two shadowy attendant figures, he stepped briskly amain, eager to open those gates across the path of his ambition, locked against him hitherto by the very hands from which he now went to receive the key.

On one of the giants, Procopio saw a familiar face-that of Ameer Tukephremo, the Mulhorandi wizard who had sold him the cloaking spells in exchange for the promise of Halruaan magic.