What does cloaking mean?
Cloaking means present participle and gerund of cloak.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
present participle and gerund of cloak.
May 15, 1555, Hugh Latimer, letter to the lovers of God's truth to take heed of their dissemblings and cloakings
I assure you, if I were Hazlewood I should look on his compliments, his bowings, his cloakings, his shawlings, and his handings with some little suspicion; and truly I think Hazlewood does so too at some odd times.
Fcy. goods, cassimeres, cloakings, piece dyes, noils, mohair, and raw stock wool and cotton.
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Cloaking means present participle and gerund of cloak.
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May 15, 1555, Hugh Latimer, letter to the lovers of God's truth to take heed of their dissemblings and cloakings
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