shroud

Definition

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

Etymology

From Middle English shroud, from Old English sċrūd, from Proto-Germanic *skrūdą. Cognate with Old Norse skrúð (“the shrouds of a ship”) ( > Danish, Norwegian skrud (“splendid attire”)).

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 […]"