shawl

«shawl» in Mova's judaism dictionary: A large piece of soft cloth, often wool or silk, worn… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a shawl, shawls)

meaning for a pupil

A large piece of soft cloth, often wool or silk, worn over the shoulders or head, or wrapped around a baby. tree →

sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Jews wear a prayer shawl, the tallit, with fringes, to recall God's commandments. In the primary lessons: Shawls keep people warm and are part of many traditional costumes. In The Wind in the Willows, Toad escapes from prison in the washerwoman's cotton print gown, shawl and black bonnet. In the past, babies were wrapped in shawls; in church, some women wear a shawl over the head. In stories, an old woman in a shawl is a common picture.

examples

• Grandma wrapped her shawl around her shoulders. tree →
• Toad pulled the shawl over his face and walked past the guards. tree →
• The baby was wrapped in a white knitted shawl. tree →
• She wore a colourful silk shawl to the wedding. tree →
• The prayer shawl is called a tallit in Jewish worship. tree →
• The wind blew her shawl off. tree →
• The daughters drew on their shawls and bowed down to the ground. tree →

note

Countable. Similar: wrap, stole, scarf (smaller). Sounds like «shorl».

In the corpora

• For his money Toad gets «a cotton print gown, an apron, a shawl, and a rusty black bonnet».

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «shawl» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.