cloaking

English

Verb

cloaking

1. present participle and gerund of cloak

Noun

cloaking (plural cloakings)

1. The act of wrapping or covering with a cloak.
   • May 15, 1555, Hugh Latimer, letter to the lovers of God's truth

     to take heed of their dissemblings and cloakings

   • 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:

     I assure you, if I were Hazlewood I should look on his compliments, his bowings, his cloakings, his shawlings, and his handings with some little suspicion; and truly I think Hazlewood does so too at some odd times.

2. The material from which cloaks are made.
   • 1908, Fibre & Fabric, page 21:

     Fcy. goods, cassimeres, cloakings, piece dyes, noils, mohair, and raw stock wool and cotton.