cowl
/kaʊl/ verb C2- To cover with, or as if with, a cowl (hood).
- To wrap or form (something made of fabric) like a cowl.
- To make a monk of (a person).
- To scrape together
He/she/it cowls · Past cowled · Past participle cowled · -ing form cowling
Verb forms
- Base form
- cowl
- He/she/it
- cowls
- Past
- cowled
- Past participle
- cowled
- -ing form
- cowling
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The stranger ascended a rough staircase, and before a table, illumined by a lamp whose light was concentrated by a large shade while the rest of the apartment was in partial darkness, he perceived the abbé in a monk’s dress, with a cowl on his head such as was used by learned men of the Middle Ages.
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