Crossword clues for shawl
shawl
- Winter wrap
- Shoulder warmer
- Warming wrap
- Sleeveless shoulder wrap
- Inedible wrap
- Wrapped accessory
- Woolen outerwear
- Wool wrap
- Shoulder shielder
- Shoulder garment
- Prayer garment
- Knitter's project
- Head-and-shoulders wrap
- Clavicle cover
- Wrap type
- Wrap that drapes the shoulders
- Tallith, e.g
- Shoulder cover
- Poncho's kin
- Pashmina, e.g
- Pashmina product
- Over-the-shoulder garb
- Loosely worn garment
- Head and shoulders cover
- Draped garment whose name comes from Persian
- Crocheted garment
- Cold shoulder preventer
- Cloth wrapped over one's shoulders
- Cashmere wrap, maybe
- Basic wrap
- ___ collar (tuxedo jacket feature)
- Protection against chills
- Afghan
- Head and shoulders protection
- Wrapped garment
- Crocheted item
- Cover for a grandmother
- Bit of attire for a carriage ride
- Knitted wrap
- Nice thing after getting the cold shoulder?
- Prayer ___
- Article thrown over the shoulders
- Cloak consisting of an oblong piece of cloth used to cover the head and shoulders
- Stole's kin
- Shoulder covering
- Paisley
- Serape, e.g.
- Serape, e.g
- Coat alternative
- Chudder
- Garment for wrapping
- Covering for the shoulders
- Cover for head and shoulders
- Wrap for a baby
- Stole line written by playwright
- Stole first of summer fruit by lake
- Fabric wrap
- You may see baby in this, quiet? Aye, wrapped lovingly at first
- It's a wrap
- Cold comfort?
- Shoulder wrap
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shawl \Shawl\, n. [Per. & Hind. sh[=a]l: cf. F. ch[^a]le.] A square or oblong cloth of wool, cotton, silk, or other textile or netted fabric, used, especially by women, as a loose covering for the neck and shoulders.
India shawl, a kind of rich shawl made in India from the wool of the Cashmere goat. It is woven in pieces, which are sewed together.
Shawl goat (Zo["o]l.), the Cashmere goat.
Shawl \Shawl\, v. t.
To wrap in a shawl.
--Thackeray.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, originally of a type of scarf worn in Asia, from Urdu and other Indian languages, from Persian shal, sometimes said to be named for Shaliat, town in India where it was first manufactured [Klein]. French châle, Spanish chal, Italian scialle, German Shawl (from English), Russian shal all are ultimately from the same source. As the name of an article of clothing worn by Western women, it is recorded from 1767.
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.
WordNet
n. cloak consisting of an oblong piece of cloth used to cover the head and shoulders
Wikipedia
A shawl (from shāl, ultimately from Sanskrit: शाटी śāṭī) is a simple item of clothing, loosely worn over the shoulders, upper body and arms, and sometimes also over the head. It is usually a rectangular or square piece of cloth, that is often folded to make a triangle but can also be triangular in shape. Other shapes include oblong shawls.
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.