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What is the noun for shroud?

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shroud
  1. That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
  2. Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
  3. That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
  4. A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
  5. The branching top of a tree; foliage.
  6. (nautical) A rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways.
  7. One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “Just as we hit La Jolla, we were enveloped in a thick shroud of fog.”
      “He detested the man he had always secretly been behind the shroud of respectability he wore in public.”
      “The pony-tailed Kimo walked into the arena wearing a shroud and lugging a big wooden cross on his shoulders.”
shrouder
  1. Agent noun of shroud: one who shrouds or conceals things.
  2. A slaughterhouse worker whose primary job is attaching a cloth or canvas cover to a beef carcass.
shrouding
shroudings
shrouders
  1. plural of shrouder
shrouds
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