cloaking

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Verb

1. present participle of cloak#English|cloak

Noun

cloaking (plural cloakings)

1. The act of wrapping or covering with a cloak.

   • to take heed of their dissemblings and cloakings

   • 1815, Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering – or The Astrologer

     I assure you, if I were Hazlewood I should look on his compliments, his bowings, his cloakings, his shawlings, and his handings with some little suspicion; and truly I think Hazlewood does so too at some odd times.

2. The material from which cloaks are made.

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