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[shawl] / ʃɔl /


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The dining room table, where the sisters wrote, is strewn with manuscripts, quill pens and tea cups; a bonnet and shawl bedeck a chair in the small kitchen.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

Tears streamed from the eyes of Uwde Sliman, a 40-year-old Ethiopian draped in a white shawl, as she came out of the church.

From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026

She looked perfectly angelic in an all-white glittery dress, complete with a flowing fur shawl.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026

Quickly, they draped him in a traditional shawl.

From BBC • Oct. 27, 2025

While I changed into the kittel, Meir knotted lengths of blue and white cord into the tassels found both on tzitzis and on the corners of a prayer shawl.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros




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