shawl
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English
Etymology
From Hindi शाल (śāl) and Urdu شال (śāl), from Persian شال (šâl).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ʃɔːl/
- (US) IPA(key): /ʃɔl/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ʃɑl/
- (Canada) IPA(key):
Audio (US cot-caught merged) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔːl
Noun
shawl (plural shawls)
- A square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders, typically by women.
- She wears her shawl when it's cold outside.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. , volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 60:
- Just then Norbourne entered the chamber; and, fancying from her attitude that his wife was asleep, he approached softly, and drew a large shawl around her.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, […] , and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.
- 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 26:
- Jessamy turned. Her uplifted candle showed a dark handsome young women in a black dress. She wore a wide shawl over her head which hung down on either side, only partially hiding a starched, white apron..
- A fold of wrinkled flesh under the lips and neck of a bloodhound, used in scenting.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
a square piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders
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Verb
shawl (third-person singular simple present shawls, present participle shawling, simple past and past participle shawled)
- (transitive) To wrap in a shawl.
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair , London: Bradbury and Evans , published 1848, →OCLC:
- Rebecca was shawling her in an upper apartment , where these two friends had an opportunity for a little of that secret talking and conspiring which forms the delight of female life
Anagrams
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English schelen, from Old English sċylian, sċilian.
Pronunciation
Verb
shawl
- to shell
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- Shawl a baanès.
- Shell the beans.
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 67