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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shawl
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 shawl over the front of the curtain instead of this triangular drape.
wear
▪ A good way to cover up is to wear a cardigan or shawl over the top.
▪ Over the jacket she wore the inveterate shawl of cockney women.
▪ The women wore dark colours and shawls and even small boys looked uneasily serious in their heavy best clothes and cloth caps.
wrap
▪ The hills are wrapped in a shawl of pink light gradually fading into dusk.
▪ She wrapped her shawl around him.
▪ Hattie Johnson stood on the rocks, wrapped in shawls, watching Clayt riding the swells back and forth, finding nothing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And so I took my shawl down from the hook and went outside.
▪ He also became interested in the breeding of goats to provide wool for shawls.
▪ Her shawl was tightly wrapped round her head and shoulders.
▪ Lying inside, wrapped in a clean woollen shawl, was the smallest baby I had ever seen.
▪ She wrapped her shawl around him.
▪ The cashmere shawl hadn't been expensive.
▪ They gave her dolls, rings, shawls, baskets and necklaces.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shawl

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 \Shawl\, v. t. To wrap in a shawl.
--Thackeray.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
shawl

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
shawl

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
shawl

n. cloak consisting of an oblong piece of cloth used to cover the head and shoulders

Wikipedia
Shawl

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.