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/kaʊl/ · noun
A monk's hood that can be pulled forward to cover the face; a robe with such a hood attached to it..
c. 1536, William Tyndale, An Exposycyon vpon the v. vi. vii. Chapters of Mathewe, An Exposycyon of the syxte Capiter, And therfore al our monkes whose professyon was neuer to eate fleshe, set vp the Pope and toke dispensacyons bothe for that faste and also for theyr strayte rules, and made theyr strayte rules as wyde as the hodes of theyr cowles.
"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.
She brought the corner of the quilt over his head like a cowl and pulled it down over his face.
[…] fire was spurting up from the torn engine cowl and glowing in the cockpit.
In the extreme clearness of the atmosphere the line of every roof, the cowl of every chimney was perceptible […]
I’m sure I’m very sorry, but it’s always this way when the wind’s in the east, sir, and we’ve tried ever so many sorts of cowls and chimney-pots, you’d be surprised.
Use cowl when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cowl means A monk's hood that can be pulled forward to cover the face; a robe with such a hood attached to it..
Common synonyms include hood, cowling.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
c. 1536, William Tyndale, An Exposycyon vpon the v. vi. vii. Chapters of Mathewe, An Exposycyon of the syxte Capiter, And therfore al our monkes whose professyon was neuer to eate fleshe, set vp the Pope and toke dispensacyons bothe for that faste and also for theyr strayte rules, and made theyr strayte rules as wyde as the hodes of theyr cowles.
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