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cloak

noun as in cover; coat

verb as in disguise

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Before the election, Atwood had tweeted on X an editorial cartoon that referenced "The Handmaid's Tale" in a hopeful fashion, in which women lined up and dressed in the oppressive handmaid's cloak and hood would emerge from the voting booth in modern attire.

From Salon

The new arrivals are all from the Shia community and follow strict religious rules, with the women wearing the chador, a full-body cloak that covers everything but their faces.

From BBC

He’s a former actor and at one point put on a bunch of accents, and pretended to wear a cloak, trying to convince me he could do an anonymous interview.

From BBC

“As a young adult, you didn’t like the group because they wore the cloak of secrecy, and they didn’t tell us what they were doing.”

Little-Pengelly said Sinn Féin need to "get their house in order" and that "no organisation should operate with a cloak of secrecy".

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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