Usually means: Wrap worn for warmth, style.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word shawl:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. shawl: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shawl: Merriam-Webster
  3. shawl: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shawl: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shawl: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shawl: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shawl, shawl: Wordnik
  8. shawl: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. shawl: Wiktionary
  10. shawl: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shawl: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shawl: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shawl: Dictionary.com
  14. shawl: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. shawl: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Shawl, The Shawl (Ozick), The Shawl (short story), The Shawl: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Shawl: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. shawl: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. shawl: Rhymezone
  20. Shawl: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. shawl: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. shawl: FreeDictionary.org
  23. shawl: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. shawl: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. shawl: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SHAWL: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shawl: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)

(Note: See shawling as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders, typically by women.
noun:  A fold of wrinkled flesh under the lips and neck of a bloodhound, used in scenting.
verb:  (transitive) To wrap in a shawl.

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