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shroud
/ʃraʊd/
noun 6verb 4
Collocations
3(noun.)
VERB + SHROUD
wrap sb in
The old blanket was wrapped in a shroud of dust after years in the attic.
PREP
in a/the ~
~ of
A thick shroud of fog covered the entire valley this morning.
Definitions
noun
1
That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds
Every time we came a research area, we had to pause while the scientists threw grey shrouds over prototypes that I wasn’t to see.
2
Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, From off the battlements of any tower, […] Or bid me go into a new-made grave And hide me with a dead man in his shroud […]
Yet let us goǃ England is in her shroud – we may not enchain ourselves to a corpse.
3
That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
Jura answers through her misty shroud.
4
A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
The shroud to which he won / His fair-eyed oxen.
a vault, or shroud, as under a church
5
One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
Then - a shock of water, a wild rush of boiling foam, and I was clinging for my life to the shroud, ay, swept straight out from it like a flag in a gale.
verb
1
To cover with a shroud.
The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.
The sliding door, which is fitted with a drop light, is shrouded with bristle-type draught excluders.
2
To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.
The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.
The truth behind their weekend retreat was shrouded in obscurity.
3
To take shelter or harbour.
[T]hough this my vvorke, ovvne not vvorth enough to deſerve your patronage, yet ſuch is your benigne humanity, that I am confident you vvill daigne it your protection, under vvhich it vvillingly ſhrovvdes it ſelfe.
If your stray attendance be yet lodged, / Or shroud within these limits.
noun
1
The branching top of a tree; foliage.
Behold, the Assyrian was a Cedar in Lebanon with faire branches, and with a shadowing shrowd, and of an hie stature, and his top was among the thicke boughes.
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swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds
Wiktionary02
Every time we came a research area, we had to pause while the scientists threw grey shrouds over prototypes that I wasn’t to see.
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O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, From off the battlements of any tower, […] Or bid me go into a new-made grave And hide me with a dead man in his shroud […]
Wiktionary04
The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.
Wiktionary05
The sliding door, which is fitted with a drop light, is shrouded with bristle-type draught excluders.
Wiktionary06
The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.
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