OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 13364

cowl

/kaʊl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
capucha • cogulla
A monk's hood that can be pulled forward to cover the face; a robe with such a hood attached to it.
The hermit, as if wishing to answer to the confidence of his guest, threw back his cowl, and showed a round bullet head belonging to a man in the prime of life.
c. 1536, William Tyndale, An Exposycyon vpon the v. vi. vii. Chapters of Mathewe, An Exposycyon of the syxte Capiter, And therfore al our monkes whose professyon was neuer to eate…
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