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cloak

  [klohk]
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–noun
1. a loose outer garment, as a cape or coat.
2. something that covers or conceals; disguise; pretense: He conducts his affairs under a cloak of secrecy.
–verb (used with object)
3. to cover with or as if with a cloak: She arrived at the opera cloaked in green velvet.
4. to hide; conceal: The mission was cloaked in mystery.
Origin:
1175–1225; ME cloke (< OF) < ML cloca, var. of clocca bell-shaped cape, bell; see clock 1

Related forms:
cloakless, adjective

Synonyms:
2. cover, mask, veil.
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Word Origin & History

cloak 
1293, from O.N.Fr. cloque, from M.L. clocca "travelers' cape," lit. "a bell," so called from the garment's bell-like appearance (see bell). The verb is from 1509. Cloak and dagger (1806) translates Fr. de cape et d'épée. Cloakroom is from 1852.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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