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shawled

shawled adjective: dressed in a shawl. Also the simple past of shawl.

Adjective

shawled (not comparable)

  1. Dressed in a shawl.
    • Properly top-hatted and shawled, men and women of Britain’s upper crust gawked at, prodded and squeezed these so-called human freaks, amusing themselves with the deformities that were paraded before them.2007 January 14, Caroline Elkins, “A Life Exposed”, in New York Times

Also used as

shawled is also the simple past of shawl.

Origin of shawled

From shawl + -ed.

Words formed from shawled

Questions about shawled

What does shawled mean?
Shawled means dressed in a shawl.
What part of speech is shawled?
Shawled is an adjective.

Words near shawled in the dictionary

  1. shawl strap
  2. shawl straps
  3. shawl waistcoat
  4. shawl waistcoats
  5. Shawlands
  6. shawled
  7. shawlette
  8. shawlettes
  9. Shawley
  10. Shawleys
  11. shawling

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