cloak

[cloak]

A cloak is anything that conceals or hides something, like an over sized, dark raincoat you wear when you don't want your friends to see you're going to the movies without them.

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A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women.

Noun
a loose outer garment

Noun
anything that covers or conceals

Verb
hide under a false appearance; "He masked his disappointment"

n.
A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women.

n.
That which conceals; a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a fair pretense; a mask; a cover.

v. t.
To cover with, or as with, a cloak; hence, to hide or conceal.

Cloak

Cloak (?; 110), n. [Of. cloque cloak (from the bell-like shape), bell, F. cloche bell; perh. of Celtik origin and the same word as E. clock. See 1st Clock.] 1. A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women. 2. That which conceals; a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a fair pretense; a mask; a cover.

No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak.

Cloak bag, a bag in which a cloak or other clothes are carried; a portmanteau. Shak.

Cloak

Cloak, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cloaked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Cloaking.] To cover with, or as with, a cloak; hence, to hide or conceal.

Now glooming sadly, so to cloak her matter.

Syn. -- See Palliate.

A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women.

To cover with, or as with, a cloak; hence, to hide or conceal.

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Usage Examples

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.

Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times.

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

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Other Usage Examples

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.