shroud
noun
[ ʃraʊd ]
• a length of cloth or an enveloping garment in which a dead person is wrapped for burial.
• "he was buried in a linen shroud"
• a thing that envelops or obscures something.
• "a shroud of mist"
Similar:
covering,
cover,
pall,
cloak,
mask,
mantle,
blanket,
sheet,
layer,
overlay,
envelope,
cloud,
veil,
screen,
curtain,
canopy,
• a set of ropes forming part of the standing rigging of a sailing boat and supporting the mast or topmast.
shroud
verb
• wrap or dress (a body) in a shroud for burial.
• "the body was washed and shrouded"
• cover or envelop so as to conceal from view.
• "mountains shrouded by cloud"
Similar:
cover,
envelop,
veil,
cloak,
curtain,
swathe,
wrap,
blanket,
screen,
cloud,
mantle,
conceal,
hide,
disguise,
mask,
obscure,
surround,
overlay,
clothe,
enshroud,
Origin:
late Old English scrūd ‘garment, clothing’, of Germanic origin, from a base meaning ‘cut’; related to shred. An early sense of the verb (Middle English) was ‘cover so as to protect’.
