Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Wearing or supplied with a cowl; hooded.
  • adjective Having the shape of a hood.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Wearing a cowl; hooded.
  • Shaped like a cowl; cucullate: as, a cowled leaf.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Wearing a cowl; hooded.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Wearing a cowl; hooded; as, a cowled monk.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having the head enclosed in a cowl or hood

Etymologies

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cowl +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • It recalls the cowled monk with his cross, and the soldier close following with his sword; the old mission-house, with its church and garrison beside it; the fierce savage lured from a roving life, and changed into a toiling _peon_, afterwards to revolt against a system of slavery that even religion failed to make endurable; the neophyte turning his hand against his priestly instructor, equally his oppressor; revolt followed by a deluge of blood, with ruinous devastation, until the walls of both _mission_ and military _cuartel_ are left tenantless, and the redskin has returned to his roving.

    The Lone Ranche Mayne Reid 1850

  • Mark Millar once posed in Scotland's Daily Record wearing what can only be described as a "fuzzy Batman Costume" with one foot on the table covered in comics with a huge grin on his cowled face.

    Mark Millar Preparing His Directorial Debut; Evokes District 9, Trainspotting and X-Men 2 Comparisons | /Film 2010

  • "Strikes me you're a bit of star-dust yourself, flung into a world of cowled gnomes who cannot see," was his comment at the end of it.

    Chapter 32 2010

  • There is something unspeakable seeking dominion over the world, the cowled figure thought as he perused a series of floating globes before him.

    WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE Richard A. Knaak 2010

  • His expression was like that of a cowled monk in a Reformationist painting caught in an iniquitous act.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • Few begin with their leading lady and two dancers cowled in black like executioners while an overture plays out.

    Janelle Monáe 2010

  • Three stories tall, a narrow brick building, cowled there by midnight, in accord with a noirish romance.

    Roanne's Dream 2010

  • Clad in a gossamer gown of emerald, the cowled female was otherwise very much a twin in face, save that her skin was of a pale green and her eyes were, as usual, shut.

    WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE Richard A. Knaak 2010

  • Clad in a gossamer gown of emerald, the cowled female was otherwise very much a twin in face, save that her skin was of a pale green and her eyes were, as usual, shut.

    WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE Richard A. Knaak 2010

  • There is something unspeakable seeking dominion over the world, the cowled figure thought as he perused a series of floating globes before him.

    WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE Richard A. Knaak 2010

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