shawled
1
5.7
Wearing a shawl to keep warm
- adjective
- /ʃɔld/
:
envuelta en un chal
- In the market, I admired a beautiful shawled figure who was selling handmade scarves.
Examples
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The elderly woman sat on the bench, shawled in a colorful knit wrap to keep warm in the chilly air.
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As the parade passed by, I noticed many shawled ladies watching with excitement from the sidewalk.
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In the distance, blue-shawled women dragged children toward a ribbon of moving water.
Academic text (2010)
Synonyms
clad
vsshawled
48
6.5
Wearing clothes of a certain kind
refers to wearing a single specific outer wrap rather than general clothing
blanketed
vsshawled
3
3.7
Completely covered by a layer, like snow or fog
describes wearing a single outer wrap rather than being fully enveloped
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
How Covered
Surface Forms
shawled positive
Morphology
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.