CLOAKING

Verb

cloaking

present participle of cloak

Noun

cloaking (plural cloakings)

The act of wrapping or covering with a cloak.

The material from which cloaks are made.

Source: Wiktionary

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Cloak"ing, n.

1. The act of covering with a cloak; the act of concealing anything. To take heed of their dissembings and cloakings. Strype.

2. The material of which of which cloaks are made.

CLOAK

Cloak (; 110), n. Etym: [Of. cloque cloak (from the bell-like shape), bell, F. cloche bell; perh. of Celtik origin and the same word as E. clock. See 1st Clock.]

1. A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women.

2. That which conceals; a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a fair pretense; a mask; a cover. No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak. South. Cloak bag, a bag in which a cloak or other clothes are carried; a portmanteau. Shak.

Cloak, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cloaked; p. pr. & vb. n. Cloaking.]

Definition: To cover with, or as with, a cloak; hence, to hide or conceal. Now glooming sadly, so to cloak her matter. Spenser.

Syn.

– See Palliate.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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