Meanings (ES + gloss)
velo
That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
Every time we came a research area, we had to pause while the scientists threw grey shrouds over prototypes that I wasn’t to see.
swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds
mortaja • sudario
Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, From off the battlements of any tower, […] Or bid me go into a new-made grave And hide me with a dead man in his shroud […]
Yet let us goǃ England is in her shroud – we may not enchain ourselves to a corpse.
brandal • obenque • obenquillo
One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
Then - a shock of water, a wild rush of boiling foam, and I was clinging for my life to the shroud, ay, swept straight out from it like a flag in a gale.
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
velar
To cover with a shroud.
The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.
The sliding door, which is fitted with a drop light, is shrouded with bristle-type draught excluders.
Phrases