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shawled

shawled

5.7
Wearing a shawl to keep warm
  • adjective
  • /ʃɔld/
translation icon : envuelta en un chal
  • In the market, I admired a beautiful shawled figure who was selling handmade scarves.

Examples

  • The elderly woman sat on the bench, shawled in a colorful knit wrap to keep warm in the chilly air.

  • As the parade passed by, I noticed many shawled ladies watching with excitement from the sidewalk.

  • In the distance, blue-shawled women dragged children toward a ribbon of moving water.

    Academic text (2010)

Synonyms

clad
vsshawled
28 6.5

Wearing clothes of a certain kind

refers to wearing a single specific outer wrap rather than general clothing
cowled
vsshawled
1 9.2

With the head covered by a hood like a monk's robe

covers shoulders or upper body rather than enclosing the head
blanketed
vsshawled
3.7

Completely covered by a layer, like snow or fog

describes wearing a single outer wrap rather than being fully enveloped

How Covered

wrapped
1.0
shawled
5.7
covered
1 1.0
bare
217 2.2

Surface Forms

shawled positive

Morphology

shawled = shawl (transparent) = shawl + ed

The adjective clearly derives from the noun 'shawl' with the regular participial/ adjectival suffix '-ed', meaning 'wearing or covered with a shawl'.

Etymology

Shawled is made from shawl + -ed, and shawl comes from an Indian and Persian word shal meaning 'wrap' or 'cover'. So someone who is shawled is 'wrapped' or covered with a shawl to keep warm.