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Word entry · 4 letters

cowl

Best crossword clue

"Hooded garment"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /kaʊl/Part of speech verb, nounSorted clowStarts with CEnds with L1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. cover with or as with a cowl

Word origin

From Middle English coule, from Old English cūle, from earlier cugele (“hood, cowl”), from Ecclesiastical Latin cuculla (“monk's cowl”), from Latin cucullus (“hood”), of uncertain origin. Doublet of cagoule.

Used in a sentence

  • "What differ more (you cry) than Crown and Cowl?" / I'll tell you, friend: a Wiſe man and a Fool.
  • The hermit, as if wishing to answer to the confidence of his guest, threw back his cowl, and showed a round bullet head belonging to a man in the prime of life.
  • The roof came down steep and black like a cowl, reaching out beyond the wide galleries that encircled the yellow stuccoed house.

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