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# cloak

«cloak» in Mova's school dictionary: **A loose coat without sleeves that hangs from the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a cloak, cloaks); verb (cloak, cloaks, cloaked, cloaking)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A loose coat without sleeves that hangs from the shoulders and is fastened at the neck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloak/#m1)

2) Something that covers or hides: «under a cloak of darkness». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloak/#m2)

3) (verb) To cover or hide something: «The hills were cloaked in mist.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloak/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories cloaks are worn by wizards, knights, heroes and villains; an invisibility cloak hides you. In history lessons Romans and medieval people wore cloaks. «Cloak-and-dagger» means secret spy business. A «cloakroom» is where you leave coats. Phrases: «under the cloak of», «cloaked in mystery».

### examples

- The wizard swirled his long black cloak. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloak/#x1)
- The thieves escaped under cloak of darkness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloak/#x2)
- The mountains were cloaked in fog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloak/#x3)
- Little Red Riding Hood wore a red cloak with a hood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloak/#x4)
- Hang your coats in the cloakroom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloak/#x5)
- It was a cloak-and-dagger mission. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloak/#x6)
- He wore a bearskin dress and cloak. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloak/#x7)

### note

Rhymes with «oak». Not a «clock». A cape is similar but usually shorter. Countable.

### In the corpora

- [the aprons, and the mantelets, and the cloaks, and the girdles;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.78/)
- [For every boot stamped with fierceness, and every cloak rolled in blood, shall even be for burning, for fuel of fire.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.190/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cloak» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloak/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.