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cowled

cowled adjective: wearing a cowl; hooded. Also the simple past and past participle of cowl.

Adjective

cowled (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a cowl; hooded.
    • She had thrown a shawl about her and, as they went together towards the tram, sprays of her fresh warm breath flew gaily above her cowled head and her shoes tapped blithely on the glassy road.1916, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, pages 75-76
    • Very soon I became aware that I must have got off the path, for snow-cowled shrubs lay directly in my way […]1923, E. F. Benson, “The Horror-Horn”, in Visible and Invisible, London: Hutchinson
  2. Fitted with a cowl. (of a chimney)
    • There were […] drifts of wood-smoke blowing from cowled chimneys.1977, Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs, Penguin, 1978, Fit 6, p. 234
  3. Cucullated.

Also used as

cowled is also the simple past and past participle of cowl.

Origin of cowled

From cowl + -ed.

Questions about cowled

What does cowled mean?
Cowled means wearing a cowl; hooded.
What part of speech is cowled?
Cowled is an adjective.

Words near cowled in the dictionary

  1. cowl-staffs
  2. cowl-staves
  3. Cowlairs
  4. cowld
  5. cowle
  6. cowled
  7. cowleech
  8. cowleeches
  9. cowleeching
  10. cowles
  11. cowlesite

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