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Wrapped accessory
Answer for the clue "Wrapped accessory ", 5 letters:
shawl
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Word definitions for shawl in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders. vb. To wrap in a shawl.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB drape ▪ She draped a plain white shawl round her shoulders, and walked slowly to the farm. ▪ She draped her shawl closely around the boy and hugged him fiercely, as if for the last time. ▪ You could drape a large lightweight ...
Usage examples of shawl.
Servants now came from the carriages, their arms laden, and the king himself presented every female artiste with a huge bouquet of hothouse carnations and a fine, fringed silk shawl embroidered with a crown.
She wore a candlelight silk shawl draped over a bronze-colored evening gown and brought to mind an image of a barquentine at full sail.
I held up a shawl for her to consider, a luxurious white lace Barras had given her.
Indeed Astoria stood to the right of door, but she held the hand of a wide-eyed Julie Orville, who wore a rain-soaked dress and bedraggled shawl.
Sareitha, formal in their fringed shawls, bowed their heads slightly in respect, but Mellar swept off his plumed hat in a flourishing bow, one hand laid over the lace-edged sash slanting across his burnished breastplate.
In the vast bed, she even appeared dainty, with her millefleurs shawl over a faded print-silk blouse.
Hazards had purchased new shawls ready-made from the modiste and added them to their gowns for the trip to Covent Garden.
Margaret had a sudden recollection of Nonic sitting in her porch, her golden head bent over masses of wool, and about her shoulders a charming green shawl!
She avoided eye contact with anyone, but drew her shawl protectively around her like an overage Ophelia.
And India Parr in this room: charming and cautious by turns, gracious, fighting her natural inclination to be alone, still wearing her woolen shawl as if it were a breastplate of armor, while speaking of Cyprians and disabusing him of the notion that he might share her bed.
He wore a rich skirt and a shawl of blue damask with fine gold passementerie, and no headdress or any other adornment on his head except for his hair, which was so blond and curly it looked like rings of gold.
As he watched, Pattera tucked the shuttle into a leather bracket on the loom frame and, wrapping a brown shawl around her, scurried toward the door.
She turned, and Cerryl watched blankly as Pattera scurried back down the alley, the shawl over her nightdress flapping as her bare feet padded on the stones.
A few of the Wise Ones were inside the wagons as well, in bulky skirts and white blouses, wearing their dark shawls in defiance of the heat, glittering bracelets and necklaces of gold and ivory making up for the plainness of the rest of their clothes.
Along the circular wall stood the shawl-draped Sitters in the Hall of the Tower, grouped by Ajah, and in front of each three Sitters, two more sisters of that Ajah, shawled and each with another shawl folded over one arm.