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English
Etymology
From cowl + -ed.
Adjective
cowled (not comparable)
- Wearing a cowl; hooded.
1923, E. F. Benson, “The Horror-Horn”, in Visible and Invisible, London: Hutchinson:Very soon I became aware that I must have got off the path, for snow-cowled shrubs lay directly in my way […]
1925 January, H. P. Lovecraft, The Festival, first published in Weird Tales:We went out into the moonless and tortuous network of that incredibly ancient town; went out as the lights in the curtained windows disappeared one by one, and the Dog Star leered at the throng of cowled, cloaked figures that poured silently from every doorway and formed monstrous processions up this street...
- Fitted with a cowl. (of a chimney)
Translations
Verb
cowled
- simple past and past participle of cowl