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 Fashionc1Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectiveverb + shawl- be draped in
- be wrapped in
- drape
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shawl + verbSee full entry Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Urdu and Persian šāl, probably from Shāliāt, the name of a town in India.