cloak
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Thucydides was partial to naturalistic explanation and, no stranger to eclipses himself, might well have offered Pericles’ nervous helmsman a cloak.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
"The night the cloak came off," blazed a headline in the Indian Express newspaper.
From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026
The off-white cloak caked in clay is deliberately drained of all color.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026
Most of those selected to wear the killer’s cloak in “The Traitors” come to this conclusion, but not as woefully as Rausch.
From Salon • Jan. 28, 2026
He rolled out of bed, donned his cloak and monocle, then swung open the front door.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Vocabulary lists containing cloak
The Balcony Scene from "Romeo and Juliet"
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