Shroud

/ˈʃɹaʊ̯d/ · noun

Meaning

That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment..

Definitions by Sense

1. That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
2. Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
3. That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
4. A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
5. (nautical) One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
6. One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
7. (astronautics) A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
8. To cover with a shroud.

Example Sentences

swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds

Every time we came a research area, we had to pause while the scientists threw grey shrouds over prototypes that I wasn’t to see.

O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, From off the battlements of any tower, […] Or bid me go into a new-made grave And hide me with a dead man in his shroud […]

Yet let us goǃ England is in her shroud – we may not enchain ourselves to a corpse.

The obstructive tendency attributed to the knot in spiritual matters appears in a Swiss superstition that if, in sewing a corpse into its shroud, you make a knot on the thread, it will hinder the soul of the deceased on its passage to eternity.

This is Radio Clash, you don't need that funeral shroud

Jura answers through her misty shroud.

The shroud to which he won / His fair-eyed oxen.

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Word Forms

• shrouds
• shrouding
• shrouded

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