caul

Examples

• All

• They say a baby born with a caul is given the second sight.

  Leap of Faith (1992)

• In an isolated cabin in the Appalachian mountains, Jonas Nightengale was born with a caul about his face.

  Leap of Faith (1992)

• This is your caul, from off your little head when you were born.

  Oscar and Lucinda (1997)

• You were born with a caul.

  Gypsy (1993)

• Tay had been born with a caul and claimed a kind of second sight.

  Fiction book (1994)

• A child born with a red caul, or amniotic membrane, covering its head was regarded as a potential vampire.

  Academic text (1990)

• Senora Valencia tore the caul from her daughter's face with her fingers.

  Fiction book (1999)

• The doctor carefully removed the caul from the baby's head after the delivery.

• She recalled her grandmother saying that a newborn's caul was a sign of special abilities.

Synonyms

V

veil

vscaul

• Specialized

8 7.7

A thin natural skin that covers things like young mushrooms or newborn babies

is limited to the thin inner membrane over a newborn head at birth

E

embryonic membrane

vscaul

• Specialized

8.1

A thin skin that sometimes covers a baby's head when it is born

is the specific thin inner membrane covering a newborn head during birth

Surface Forms

Etymology