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Definition of shawl in English: shawlnoun ʃɔːlʃɔl A piece of fabric worn by women over the shoulders or head or wrapped round a baby. Example sentencesExamples - So I got dressed and slipped a shawl over my shoulders, wrapping it around myself tightly.
- We get to wear these pretty silk baby blue gowns with white translucent shawls and orchid crowns on our heads.
- Shivering slightly with the cold I wrapped a shawl around my shoulders and left the house.
- Women wear colorful gathered skirts with aprons and cloth shawls over their shoulders.
- The sun was out and it felt warm on her skin, but the morning breeze made Elizabeth wrap her shawl tighter around her shoulder.
- And floor-mounted coat racks are a natural for cloaks, gowns, shawls and scarves.
- After that I'm going to have a go at knitting a lace shawl for the new baby.
- There will be lots of beautifully designed beaded and embroidered purses and shawls to complement the season's gowns.
- She wrapped a shawl around her shoulders and peered out at the mountains from the window.
- Straw hats replaced the shawl and bonnet and dresses came more into vogue.
- India has beautiful fabrics by the acre - shawls and jackets, skirts and scarves, wall-hangings and bedspreads.
- Gypsy and ethnic references appear in a number of outfits including Spanish style poncho skirts, shawls and classic Native American dresses.
- The young woman, standing at the end of my bed, rocked a sleeping baby wrapped in a shawl.
- The two of them had draped their shawls around their shoulders and descended the stairs in silence.
- She was fully dressed with her hair done and a shawl over her shoulders, as though she had been waiting for the men to awaken.
- Knitwear includes shawls, scarves and berets with a selection of babywear also available.
- She was wearing a black gown with a black shawl on her neck and a pair of black evening gloves.
- Keep the bulky fabrics to shawls and accessories and be mad about figure-skimming lightweight plaids.
- Alicia is sitting on a small stone bench in a patch of sun with a thick shawl wrapped around her shoulders.
- They wear long petticoated gowns with shawls, along with extravagant headdresses.
Synonyms cloak, mantle, wrap, stole, tippet
Derivatives adjective Elsewhere, a determined woman, shawled and barefoot, stands at the prow of a ship. Example sentencesExamples - Too often, his plays have been turned into heritage drama, with daft, capering comics and saggy, tragically shawled women.
- During the nineteenth century the shawl was found by many women to be a cheaper substitute for the cloak and even today older rural women might be shawled.
- But I see them as human and architectural elements in a landscape of devastation: shawled women and broken pillars, against early daylight, as with the Christ figure in Piero's Resurrection.
- The bus is overcrowded and people sit on the roof, shawled against the wind as they pass through an ethereally green landscape in Jehanabad; a rainbow arches across the sky in an ambiguous gesture of covenant.
Origin Early 17th century: from Urdu and Persian šāl, probably from Shāliāt, the name of a town in India. Rhymes all, appal (US appall), awl, Bacall, ball, bawl, befall, Bengal, brawl, call, caul, crawl, Donegal, drawl, drywall, enthral (US enthrall), fall, forestall, gall, Galle, Gaul, hall, haul, maul, miaul, miscall, Montreal, Naipaul, Nepal, orle, pall, Paul, pawl, Saul, schorl, scrawl, seawall, Senegal, small, sprawl, squall, stall, stonewall, tall, thrall, trawl, wall, waul, wherewithal, withal, yawl Definition of shawl in US English: shawlnounSHôlʃɔl A piece of fabric worn by women over the shoulders or head or wrapped around a baby. Example sentencesExamples - India has beautiful fabrics by the acre - shawls and jackets, skirts and scarves, wall-hangings and bedspreads.
- She was wearing a black gown with a black shawl on her neck and a pair of black evening gloves.
- And floor-mounted coat racks are a natural for cloaks, gowns, shawls and scarves.
- The two of them had draped their shawls around their shoulders and descended the stairs in silence.
- The sun was out and it felt warm on her skin, but the morning breeze made Elizabeth wrap her shawl tighter around her shoulder.
- Shivering slightly with the cold I wrapped a shawl around my shoulders and left the house.
- Keep the bulky fabrics to shawls and accessories and be mad about figure-skimming lightweight plaids.
- Gypsy and ethnic references appear in a number of outfits including Spanish style poncho skirts, shawls and classic Native American dresses.
- Alicia is sitting on a small stone bench in a patch of sun with a thick shawl wrapped around her shoulders.
- Straw hats replaced the shawl and bonnet and dresses came more into vogue.
- Knitwear includes shawls, scarves and berets with a selection of babywear also available.
- She was fully dressed with her hair done and a shawl over her shoulders, as though she had been waiting for the men to awaken.
- Women wear colorful gathered skirts with aprons and cloth shawls over their shoulders.
- The young woman, standing at the end of my bed, rocked a sleeping baby wrapped in a shawl.
- She wrapped a shawl around her shoulders and peered out at the mountains from the window.
- There will be lots of beautifully designed beaded and embroidered purses and shawls to complement the season's gowns.
- So I got dressed and slipped a shawl over my shoulders, wrapping it around myself tightly.
- We get to wear these pretty silk baby blue gowns with white translucent shawls and orchid crowns on our heads.
- After that I'm going to have a go at knitting a lace shawl for the new baby.
- They wear long petticoated gowns with shawls, along with extravagant headdresses.
Synonyms cloak, mantle, wrap, stole, tippet
Origin Early 17th century: from Urdu and Persian šāl, probably from Shāliāt, the name of a town in India. |