cowled

English

Etymology

cowl + -ed

Adjective

cowled (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a cowl; hooded.
    • 1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York: B. W. Huebsch, Chapter 2, pp. 75-76,
      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.
    • 1923, E. F. Benson, “The Horror-Horn” in Visible and Invisible, London: Hutchinson,
      Very soon I became aware that I must have got off the path, for snow-cowled shrubs lay directly in my way []
    • 1925, H. P. Lovecraft, The Festival, first published in Weird Tales in January 1925
      We went out into the moonless and tortuous network of that incredibly ancient town; went out as the lights in the curtained windows disappeared one by one, and the Dog Star leered at the throng of cowled, cloaked figures that poured silently from every doorway and formed monstrous processions up this street...
  2. (of a chimney) Fitted with a cowl.

Translations

Verb

cowled

  1. simple past tense and past participle of cowl
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