shroud

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   cover as if with a shroud

   The origins of this civilization are shrouded in mystery.

2. 2
   verb

   form a cover like a shroud

   Mist shrouded the castle.

Simplified etymology

Shroud comes from late Old English scrūd “garment, clothing,” from a Germanic source based on the idea of cutting; shred is related. The sense “cloth in which a corpse is laid out” dates from the late 16th century.

From Middle English shroud, from Old English sċrūd, from Proto-Germanic *skrūdą. Cognate with Old Norse skrúð (“the shrouds of a ship”) ( > Danish, Norwegian skrud (“splendid attire”)).

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