shawl

noun
🔊/ʃɔːl/
🔊/ʃɔːl/
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  1. a large piece of cloth worn by a woman around the shoulders or head, or wrapped around a baby(女用)披巾,披肩;襁褓
    Extra Examples
    • Ruth draped a shawl over her shoulders.露丝往肩上披了块披肩。
    • Ellianne wrapped the shawl around her shoulders.埃莉安在肩上披了条披肩。
    • She pulled her shawl about her protectively.她把披巾紧紧裹在身上。
    • She was wearing a shawl tied around her waist.她腰上系着一条披巾。
    Topics Clothes and Fashionc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • heavy
    • light
    • thin
    verb + shawl
    • be draped in
    • be wrapped in
    • drape
    shawl + verb
    • cover something
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    Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Urdu and Persian šāl, probably from Shāliāt, the name of a town in India.