cloaking

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of cloak

plural cloakings

1. countableuncountableThe act of wrapping or covering with a cloak.

   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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   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.

   1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC

2. countableuncountableThe material from which cloaks are made.

   Fcy. goods, cassimeres, cloakings, piece dyes, noils, mohair, and raw stock wool and cotton.

   1908, Fibre & Fabric, page 21

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