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# cowl

«cowl» in Mova's school dictionary: **A hood, especially a loose hood on a monk's robe; old use** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (cowls)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A hood, especially a loose hood on a monk's robe; old use. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cowl/#m1)

2) A cap-shaped cover on the top of a chimney to keep out rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cowl/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales, a cowl is a disguise: someone hides their face under a hood so no one knows who they are.

### examples

- The monk pulled his cowl over his head. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cowl/#x1)
- Under a grey cowl he crept past the guards. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cowl/#x2)
- The old man wore a cowl to hide his face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cowl/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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