What is "cowls"

Usage examples of "cowls".

They were too far off to see if they wore cowls, but they were certainly dressed in robes and therefore could only be priests or old men .

Their eyes were cold in the shadow of their cowls, but they seemed more relaxed, now that their captive was farther away.

The sorcerers' cowls must restrict their peripheral vision hopelessly.

Two more wagons were coming from the right, and the sorcerers were behind those, a glimpse of yellow cowls above the crowd.

Long-haired women with dark shawls over their shoulders, draped in dozens of long necklaces, women with fewer necklaces milking goats, women wearing the cadin’sor and sometimes carrying spears and bucklers, women peeking from the deep cowls of heavy white robes as they scurried across snow already trampled halfway to mud.

They seemed watchful, too, enveloped in saidar or not, cowls swiveling constantly as they scanned everyone in sight.

A wide hull flared like an up-blown skirt above the axles, with cowls around the wheels, and the pole that projected up from the front of the cabin was indeed a mast.

It was a big wide barge with odd projecting cowls and wings and fins, like an exploded beetle, surging along so strongly, and leaving such a white wake, that the flying man knew it was powered by some species of engine.

Their cowls were drawn up to hide their faces, but each man rested his hand on his sword, and the golden suns on their left breasts were a plain announcement of who they were.

But the two men who walked out of the trees, faces hidden by their cowls, did not wear cloaks the color of dried blood.