shawl

noun

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\ ˈshȯl

Definition of shawl

(Entry 1 of 2)

: a square or oblong usually fabric garment or wrapper used especially as a covering for the head or shoulders

shawl

verb

shawled; shawling; shawls

Definition of shawl (Entry 2 of 2)

transitive verb

: to wrap in or as if in a shawl

Examples of shawl in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Symone Sanders, 31, senior adviser to Vice President Harris, has just come from work, wearing a camel-hair-colored shawl, her long, rainbow fingernails tapping on her phone. — Washington Post, 8 May 2021 Noah Lemaiyan -- a herdsman clad in a red and blue shawl -- lives on the outskirts of Amboseli. — CNN, 24 May 2021 As part of the ceremony, a red memorial shawl with the names of missing and slain Indigenous women was draped across a long table to remember the lives behind what Haaland called alarming and unacceptable statistics. — Susan Montoya Bryan And Felicia Fonseca, Star Tribune, 6 May 2021 As part of the ceremony, a red memorial shawl with the names of missing and slain Indigenous women was draped across a long table to remember the lives behind what Haaland called alarming and unacceptable statistics. — Felicia Fonseca, Anchorage Daily News, 5 May 2021 Haaland displayed the shawl in her office Wednesday to symbolize those who have disappeared and honor the movement that rang the alarm. — Susan Montoya Bryan And Felicia Fonseca, Star Tribune, 5 May 2021 Haaland displayed the red shawl in her office Wednesday to symbolize those who have disappeared and honor the movement that rang the alarm. — Felicia Fonseca, Anchorage Daily News, 5 May 2021 The suits are in one of three different collar and lapel styles: shawl, peaked or notched. — Lois Fenton, Arkansas Online, 4 Apr. 2021 The groom donned a custom Loro Piana ivory mohair dinner jacket with a satin shawl lapel collar tailored by Rudi Festari. — New York Times, 26 Mar. 2021

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