Shroud

Quick meaning: Shroud is a noun meaning That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
2. That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
3. A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
4. One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
5. (astronautics) A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
6. To cover with a shroud.
7. (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.

Example Sentences

Jura answers through her misty shroud.

swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds

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

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

Word Forms

• shrouds
• shrouding
• shrouded

Synonyms for shroud

Depending on context, synonyms include sindon, cloak, cover, mantle, veil, pall.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include enshroud, cover, sheet, tack, pall, cerement.

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