cowl
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Finding a suit and cowl made just for him, Damian transforms into Little Batman in order to safeguard Wayne Manor and Gotham City from villains, including a rather mischievous Joker.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025
In the corner, a cowl made of macrame, textiles and yarn adorns a mannequin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2025
“To put on a Rick Owens sequined cowl or knee-high leather stocking boots is to express oneself in a language not everyone understands.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
Batman’s cowl and Iron Man’s mask appear in Briscoe’s paintings, but another sort of comics character especially haunts “Thought Bubbles,” the artist’s DC Arts Center show.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023
They wore their robes of black and white, but as they took their seats each man pulled his cowl down to show the face he had chosen to wear that day.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
The collars this season were a nod to the past, evoking the ruffled cowls and buttoned neck fastenings of coats reminiscent of the 19th century.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 20, 2024
Yet Serebrennikov wisely pivots to a more operatic approach in the second half with a large chorus of singers and dancers, all in black monk’s cowls.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2022
They both had their cowls on, so Batman had his whole mask on, and so did Catwoman, and then I realized that they had actually taken them off a couple of pages earlier.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2017
Her weakness in combat, when compared to the capes and cowls around her?
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2016
Insects as thick as confetti swirled around the cowls of the streetlights.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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