: a square or oblong usually fabric garment or wrapper used especially as a covering for the head or shoulders
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Averi Baudler, Peoplemag, 20 May 2024
On the train to the death camp, the young father wraps one of his twins in a shawl and throws her off the train into the snow.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 19 May 2024
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Copy Stewart’s fashionable ’fit by picking up this knit shawl at Amazon.
—Averi Baudler, Peoplemag, 20 May 2024
On the train to the death camp, the young father wraps one of his twins in a shawl and throws her off the train into the snow.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 19 May 2024
See all Example Sentences for shawl
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“Shawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shawl. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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shawl
1 of 2 noun
: a square or oblong piece of woven or knitted fabric used especially as a covering for the head or shoulders
shawl
2 of 2 verb
: to wrap in or as if in a shawl
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