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   Shroud

   /SHroud/

   

   noun

   • 1. a length of cloth or an enveloping garment in which a dead person is wrapped for burial: "he was buried in a linen shroud" Similar winding sheetgrave clothesburial clothescerementschrisom
   • ▪ a protective casing or cover: technical "the trigger shroud prevents snagging on clothing"
   • 2. a thing that envelops or obscures something: "a shroud of mist" Similar coveringcoverpallcloakmaskmantleblanketsheetlayeroverlayenvelopecloudveilscreencurtaincanopy
   • 3. a set of ropes forming part of the standing rigging of a sailing vessel and supporting the mast from the sides.
   • ▪ each of the lines joining the canopy of a parachute to the harness.

   verb

   • 1. wrap or dress (a body) in a shroud for burial: "the body was washed and shrouded"
   • 2. cover or envelop so as to conceal from view: "mountains shrouded by cloud"

   Word Origin late Old Englishscrūd ‘garment, clothing’, of Germanic origin, from a base meaning ‘cut’; related to shred. An early sense of the verb (Middle English) was ‘cover so as to protect’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. shroudless adjective

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