shawl
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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
But several wore a red hat, scarf or shawl, recalling the designer's signature colour.
From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026
Quickly, they draped him in a traditional shawl.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025
There’s the pink shawl that keeps getting taken away from her, and the dance-like physicality of her movements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
Then he saw what the figure was wearing: a shapeless dress that stretched below her knees, a matronly oatmeal-colored shawl around her shoulders.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Another, Ben Brierley, enlisted his family in making shawls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
"Our shawls are not just fabric," he says, emphasising that most of his subjects are elderly artisans who spin, dye and weave each thread.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
Other racks hold the matching skirts and pants as well as stylized denim shawls and double-breasted, patchwork coats she made for special occasions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025
The cries of infants tied by shawls to their queueing mothers' backs fill the air.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2025
On the way there, Mariam saw herb shops, and open-fronted cubbyholes where shoppers bought oranges and pears, books, shawls, even falcons.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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