Meanings
- not comparableDressed in a shawl.
Properly top-hatted and shawled, men and women of Britain’s upper crust gawked at, prodded and squeezed these so-called human freaks, amusing themselves with the deformities that were paraded before them.
2007 January 14, Caroline Elkins, “A Life Exposed”, in New York Times
- pastsimple past of shawl
Origin
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shawled. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shawled
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