cloaking
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]cloaking
- present participle and gerund of cloak
Noun
[edit]cloaking (plural cloakings)
- The 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
- 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:
- 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.
- May 15, 1555, Hugh Latimer, letter to the lovers of God's truth
- The material from which cloaks are made.