Meanings
- not comparableWearing a cowl; hooded.
Very soon I became aware that I must have got off the path, for snow-cowled shrubs lay directly in my way […]
1923, E. F. Benson, “The Horror-Horn”, in Visible and Invisible, London: Hutchinson2 more examples
She had thrown a shawl about her and, as they went together towards the tram, sprays of her fresh warm breath flew gaily above her cowled head and her shoes tapped blithely on the glassy road.
1916, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, pages 75-76We went out into the moonless and tortuous network of that incredibly ancient town; went out as the lights in the curtained windows disappeared one by one, and the Dog Star leered at the throng of cowled, cloaked figures that poured silently from every doorway and formed monstrous processions up this street...
1925 January, H. P. Lovecraft, The Festival, first published in Weird Tales - not comparableFitted with a cowl. (of a chimney)
1977, Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs, Penguin, 1978, Fit 6, p. 234, There were […] drifts of wood-smoke blowing from cowled chimneys.
- not comparablebiologyCucullated.
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of cowl
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Danish kutteklædt
- kutteklædtwearing a cowl
French encapuchonné
- encapuchonnéwearing a cowl
Hungarian csuhás
- csuháswearing a cowl
Irish cochallach
- cochallachwearing a cowl
Cite this entry
cowled. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cowled
“cowled.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cowled. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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