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shroud en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ˈʃɹæʊ̯d/ Southern US, Midland US, Mid-Atlantic US, New York City, Australia, New Zealand
• /ˈʃɹaʊ̯d/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈʃɹaːd/ Pittsburgh, General South African, /aʊ̯/-monophthongization
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English shroud, from Old English sċrūd, from Proto-Germanic *skrūdą (“shroud, dress, attire”). Compare Proto-Germanic *skrūdijaną (“to shroud”). Cognate with Old Norse skrúð, Swedish skrud (“shroud”), Danish and Norwegian skrud (“splendid attire”)).

Meanings

1. That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
   • swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds 1636, George Sandys, Paraphrase upon the Psalms and Hymns dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments:
   • Every time we came a research area, we had to pause while the scientists threw grey shrouds over prototypes that I wasn’t to see. 2019 April 25, Samanth Subramanian, “Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands”, in The Guardian:
2. Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
   • The obstructive tendency attributed to the knot in spiritual matters appears in a Swiss superstition that if, in sewing a corpse into its shroud, you make a knot on the thread, it will hinder the soul of the deceased on its passage to eternity. 1911, James George Frazer, chapter V, in Taboo and the Perils of the Soul (The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion; II), third edition, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, page 310:
   • O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, From off the battlements of any tower, […] Or bid me go into a new-made grave And hide me with a dead man in his shroud […] c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
   • This is Radio Clash, you don't need that funeral shroud 1981, “This Is Radio Clash”, performed by The Clash:
   • Yet let us goǃ England is in her shroud – we may not enchain ourselves to a corpse. 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter II, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
3. That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
   • Jura answers through her misty shroud. 1812–1818, Lord Byron, “(please specify |canto=I to IV)”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):
4. A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
   • The shroud to which he won / His fair-eyed oxen. c. 1618, George Chapman, Hymns of Homer:
   • a vault, or shroud, as under a church 1554, John Withals, A Dictionarie in English and Latine:
5. One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
   • Then - a shock of water, a wild rush of boiling foam, and I was clinging for my life to the shroud, ay, swept straight out from it like a flag in a gale. 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
6. One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
7. A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.

Forms

Deriveds

shroudie · shroudless · shroudlike · unshroud · enshroud · shroudy · shroud-laid · shroud knot · futtock shroud · beshroud · shroud-waving · barrel shroud

Synonyms

sindon

Translations (96)

la brandeum (dress for the dead) · he רִכְסָה (mast support) · fi vaate (a garment) · ru ва́нты (mast support) · mk по́кров (dress for the dead) · de Want (mast support) · nb svøp (dress for the dead) · ar كفن (dress for the dead) · fr voile (a garment) · mk пре́вез (a garment) · mi puraku (dress for the dead) · ru пелена́ (dress for the dead) · he יֶתֶר צַד (mast support) · fr suaire (dress for the dead) · vi vải liệm (dress for the dead) · hy պատան (dress for the dead) · de Grabtuch (dress for the dead) · kmr kefen (dress for the dead) · az kəfən (dress for the dead) · pl wanta (mast support) · he תַּכְרִיךְ (dress for the dead) · bg покров (dress for the dead) · nn vant (mast support) · nl want (mast support) · eu hiljantzi (dress for the dead) · bg ванта (mast support) · fi vantti (mast support) · mt kefen (dress for the dead) · grc σάβανον (dress for the dead) · mi waewae (mast support) · hu halotti lepel (dress for the dead) · so kafan (dress for the dead) · fi käärinliina (dress for the dead) · ms kafan (dress for the dead) · pt sudário (dress for the dead) · fr linceul (dress for the dead) · tr kefen (dress for the dead) · hu vantni (mast support) · la vitalia (dress for the dead) · cs (aerodynamický) kryt (a streamlined protective covering) · fr hauban (mast support) · ru покро́в (dress for the dead) · fi kuolinvaate (dress for the dead) · it sartia (mast support) · id kafan (dress for the dead) · enm shroud (dress for the dead) · es obenquillo (mast support) · kum гебин (dress for the dead) · es obenque (mast support) · da ligklæde (dress for the dead) · tl lalab (dress for the dead) · nb vant (mast support) · sv svepning (dress for the dead) · bg саван (dress for the dead) · he וַנְטָה (mast support) · pt mortalha (dress for the dead) · lad mortaja (dress for the dead) · nb liksvøp (dress for the dead) · nb likskjorte (dress for the dead) · bg кожух (a streamlined protective covering) · ga taisléine (dress for the dead) · cmn 壽衣 /寿衣 (dress for the dead) · cs rubáš (dress for the dead) · ru са́ван (dress for the dead) · gd anart-bàis (dress for the dead) · sv vant (mast support) · ga taiséadach (dress for the dead) · nl lijkdoek (dress for the dead) · ca obenc (mast support) · grc σπεῖρον (dress for the dead) · el σάβανο (dress for the dead) · pt ovém (mast support) · it sindone (dress for the dead) · gd fàradh (mast support) · it sudario (dress for the dead) · mi purutapu (dress for the dead) · eo stajo (mast support) · de Leichentuch (dress for the dead) · da vant (mast support) · nl lijkgewaad (dress for the dead) · gv aarey (mast support) · mk са́ван (dress for the dead) · nl lijkwade (dress for the dead) · es sudario (dress for the dead) · es velo (a garment) · ilo talakbong (dress for the dead) · ga scriúta (mast support) · nl doodskleed (dress for the dead) · fa کفن (dress for the dead) · es brandal (mast support) · ota كفن (dress for the dead) · es mortaja (dress for the dead) · pl całun (dress for the dead) · fi vaippa (a streamlined protective covering) · hy սավան (dress for the dead) · fr coiffe (a streamlined protective covering)

shroud en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /ˈʃɹæʊ̯d/ Southern US, Midland US, Mid-Atlantic US, New York City, Australia, New Zealand
• /ˈʃɹaʊ̯d/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈʃɹaːd/ Pittsburgh, General South African, /aʊ̯/-monophthongization
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English schrouden (> Anglo-Latin scrudāre), from Middle English schroud (“shroud”) (see above).

Meanings

1. To cover with a shroud.
   • The sliding door, which is fitted with a drop light, is shrouded with bristle-type draught excluders. 1954 February, “Third Class Corridor Brake Coaches for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, pages 132-133:
   • The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums. 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
2. To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.
   • There's a shadow just behind me Shrouding every step I take Making every promise empty Pointing every finger at me Waiting like a stalking butler Who upon the finger rests Murder now the path of must we Just because the son has come 1993, “Sober”, performed by Tool:
   • Moon ſlip behind ſome Cloud, ſome Tempeſt riſe / And blovv out all the Stars that light the Skies, / To ſhrovvd my ſhame. 1665 (first performance), John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for H[enry] Herringman […], published 1667, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii, page 30:
   • One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen. 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
   • The truth behind their weekend retreat was shrouded in obscurity.
   • The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.
   • As we breasted the first summit, the precipitous mass of the Raven's Rock, towering some 250 ft. above the railway, looked grim and forbidding in the failing light, and distant Ben Wyves was shrouded in mist. 1951 January, H. A. Vallance, “Kyle of Lochalsh Revisited”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
3. To take shelter or harbour.
   • If your stray attendance be yet lodged, / Or shroud within these limits. 1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
   • [T]hough this my vvorke, ovvne not vvorth enough to deſerve your patronage, yet ſuch is your benigne humanity, that I am confident you vvill daigne it your protection, under vvhich it vvillingly ſhrovvdes it ſelfe. 1634, William Wood, “To the Right Worshipfull, My Much Honored Friend, Sir William Armyne, Knight and Baronet”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England; […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, […], →OCLC, 1st part, page 8:

Forms

Deriveds

shrouder · enshroud · overshroud · reshroud

Synonyms

veil · cover · mantle · cloak

Translations (9)

bg обвивам (to veil or conceal) · vi liệm (to cover with a shroud) · sw kafini (to cover with a shroud) · ota اورتمك (to veil or conceal) · es velar (to cover with a shroud) · it celare (to veil or conceal) · it velare (to veil or conceal) · bg покривам (to veil or conceal) · ru окутать (to veil or conceal)

shroud en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

• /ˈʃɹæʊ̯d/ Southern US, Midland US, Mid-Atlantic US, New York City, Australia, New Zealand
• /ˈʃɹaʊ̯d/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈʃɹaːd/ Pittsburgh, General South African, /aʊ̯/-monophthongization
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Variant of shred.

Meanings

1. The branching top of a tree; foliage.
   • Behold, the Assyrian was a Cedar in Lebanon with faire branches, and with a shadowing shrowd, and of an hie stature, and his top was among the thicke boughes. 1611, King James Version, “xxxi.iii”, in Ezekiel, Barker edition:

Forms

shroud en · VERB · etymology 3

Pronunciation

• /ˈʃɹæʊ̯d/ Southern US, Midland US, Mid-Atlantic US, New York City, Australia, New Zealand
• /ˈʃɹaʊ̯d/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈʃɹaːd/ Pittsburgh, General South African, /aʊ̯/-monophthongization
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Variant of shred.

Meanings

1. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To lop the branches from (a tree).

Forms