shawl
/ʃɔl/ noun B2- 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.
- A fold of wrinkled flesh under the lips and neck of a bloodhound, used in scenting.
Plural shawls
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I sprang from my bed, wrapped a shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor.
When her dishes were washed and her bread sponge set and her hens fed Marilla remembered that she had noticed a small rent in her best black lace shawl when she had taken it off on Monday afternoon on returning from the Ladies’ Aid.
The shawl was in a box in her trunk.
As Marilla lifted it out, the sunlight, falling through the vines that clustered thickly about the window, struck upon something caught in the shawl--something that glittered and sparkled in facets of violet light.
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