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
The Ava Gardner of 1987, in her knitted shawl and high-bridge spectacles, seems to carry no sense of mystery.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 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
Quickly, they draped him in a traditional shawl.
From BBC • Oct. 27, 2025
My middle sister, Celia, sat on the wall of the yard, knitting a shawl.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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