shroud
pronunciation
How to pronounce shroud in British English:
UK [ʃraʊd]
How to pronounce shroud in American English:
US [ʃraʊd]
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- Noun:
- a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute
- (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
- burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
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- Verb:
- cover as if with a shroud
- form a cover like a shroud
- wrap in a shroud
Word Origin
- shroud
- shroud: [OE] Shroud originally meant simply ‘garment’ – a sense which survived into the early modern English period (‘My princely robes are laid aside, whose glittering pomp Diana’s shrouds supplies’, Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe, Dido Queen of Carthage 1594). Not until the late 16th century did the modern meaning ‘winding-sheet’ begin to emerge. The word derives ultimately from the prehistoric West Germanic base *skraud-, *skreud-, *skrud- ‘cut’ (source also of English shred).=> shred
- shroud (n.)
- Old English scrud "a garment, clothing, dress," from West Germanic *skruthan, from Proto-Germanic *skrud- "cut" (cognates: Old Norse skruð "shrouds of a ship, tackle, gear; furniture of a church," Danish, Swedish skrud "dress, attire"), from PIE *skreu- "to cut" (see shred (n.)). Specific meaning "winding-sheet, cloth or sheet for burial," to which the word now is restricted, first attested 1560s. Sense of "strong rope supporting the mast of a ship" (mid-15c.) is from the notion of "clothing" a spar or mast; one without rigging was said to be naked.
- shroud (v.)
- c. 1300, "to clothe, to cover, protect," from Old English scrydan, scridan "to clothe, dress;" see shroud (n.). Meaning "to hide from view, conceal" (transitive) is attested from early 15c. Related: Shrouded; shrouding.
Example
- 1. The remains are then wrapped in a new shroud and reburied .
- 2. Leonardo da vinci ( right ) is suspected of faking the image of christ 's face on the turin shroud using his own features
- 3. Officials say that , notwithstanding beijing 's semi-permanent shroud of haze , air quality is improving and should get even better .
- 4. The old shroud is given to a newly married , childless couple to cover the connubial bed .
- 5. I started designing for natural earth burials : where the body , dressed only in a shroud , is placed directly into the ground or into an eco-friendly coffin .