cloak

noun

/kləʊk/

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[countable] a type of coat that has no arms, fastens at the neck and hangs loosely from the shoulders, worn especially in the past
- She stormed off, her cloak flying behind her.
- She threw a heavy cloak over her shoulders.
- a flowing black cloak
Topics Clothes and Fashionc1
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- heavy
- thick
- hooded
- …
verb + cloak
- be wrapped in
- drape
- throw
- …
cloak + verb
- billow
- flow
- flutter
- …
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[singular] (literary) a thing that hides or covers somebody/something
- They left under the cloak of darkness.
- The author prefers to hide behind a cloak of anonymity.

Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French cloke, dialect variant of cloche ‘bell, cloak’ (from its bell shape), from medieval Latin clocca ‘bell’. Compare with clock.

cloak

verb

/kləʊk/

[often passive] (literary)

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they cloak	/kləʊk/ /kləʊk/
he / she / it cloaks	/kləʊks/ /kləʊks/
past simple cloaked	/kləʊkt/ /kləʊkt/
past participle cloaked	/kləʊkt/ /kləʊkt/
-ing form cloaking	/ˈkləʊkɪŋ/ /ˈkləʊkɪŋ/

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to cover or hide something
- be cloaked (in something) The hills were cloaked in thick mist.
- The meeting was cloaked in mystery.
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French cloke, dialect variant of cloche ‘bell, cloak’ (from its bell shape), from medieval Latin clocca ‘bell’. Compare with clock.