cowled

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   wearing a cowl or hood, especially as part of a monk's clothing

   A cowled monk crossed the silent courtyard.

2. 2
   adj

   fitted with or shaped like a protective cowl

   The cowled chimney kept rain from falling into the flue.

From cowl + -ed. Cowl comes through Old English cūle and ecclesiastical Latin cuculla, 'hooded garment.' The adjective first described a person wearing such a hood and later anything fitted with a hoodlike covering.

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