shawl
A square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders, typically by women.
Example
“She wears her shawl when it's cold outside.”
Other meanings
A fold of wrinkled flesh under the lips and neck of a bloodhound, used in scenting.
A kind of
- cloak
Related words
- enshawled
- shawlette
- shawlless
- shawllike
- shawlwise
- unshawl
- praying shawl
- beshawled
- India shawl
- shawl collar
- prayer shawl
- shawl goat
Word history
From Persian "شال".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “shawl” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.