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Answer for the clue "Benedictine's garb ", 4 letters:
cowl

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES cowl neck EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Fibreglass wheel pants were moulded and fitted to the landing gears and fake cowl flaps were attached to a re-worked AT-6 cowling. ▪ Fitting a cowl to a chimney may solve a drawing problem, ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A cowl is a device used on a kiln to keep the weather out of and to induce a flow of air through the kiln. They are normally associated with oasts but can also be found on breweries ( Letheringsett , Norfolk ), maltings ( Ware, Hertfordshire ; Hadlow , ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A monk's hood or hooded robe 2 A mask that covers the majority of the head. 3 A thin protective covering over all or part of an engine; also cowling 4 A usually hood-shaped covering used to increase the draft of a chimney and prevent backflow. 5 (context ...

Usage examples of cowl.

And inside the trunk are mail leggings, cowl, mittens, boots, and a leather aketon for protection underneath.

In the dreamlet, her human figure conjured a bucket of red paint and flung it at the cowled Ghina figure.

Then the monster had risen to its feet and had begun to walk leisurely to and fro across the common among the few fugitives, with its headlike hood turning about exactly like the head of a cowled human being.

Ohmsfords, when the stranger reached up and pulled back the cowl of his cloak to reveal clearly the dark face, now framed by long black hair, cut nearly shoulder length and shading the deep-set eyes, which still showed only as black slits in the shadows beneath the heavy brows.

I was in, this confirmed me in the belief that my idea of taking the cowl had been a Divine inspiration.

I am sure the abbot will not refuse me the cowl if I give him ten thousand crowns for my support.

Scowling, Kesk lifted his head, pushed back his cowl, and finally had the satisfaction of seeing someone flinch.

Nina Malapert, anonymous in the ubiquitous mourning black, her pink mohawk subdued under a heavy black cowl, shouldered her way through the packed crowds, not even glancing at the street.

Indeed, as I climaxed noisily, it seemed to me that one of these figures, cowled and sinister, detached itself from the fresco and moved shadowily away into the trees.

Shortly after, a figure dressed in the habit of a Simonite, with the hood of his cowl pulled up over his head, carried a basket of dirty laundry out of the back door of the roadhouse.

Her dark blue cloak was draped around her, like the shadows had been around Sor na Shannen, but her cowl rested along her shoulders, and the blackness of her hair, drawn back, still framed her white face, her violet eyes.

On one, a turbojet engine blasted loose of its mount and tumbled away, bouncing down the mountainside trailing smoke and white-hot shreds of its cowling, and the gunship spun half out of control.

The younger shifted nervously like Wynn, while his mature companion remained as still as the third priest in front with his cowl still up.

When the woman glanced toward Wynn, her cowled companion noticed and did likewise.

Before the noise was finished, Vassa Bassa was on his feet, pulling his cowl over head and horns.