shroud English · revision 891

+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ʃɹaʊd/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|shroud|t=garment]], [[inh|ang|scrūd|t=garment, clothing]],^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU) from [[gem-pro|*skrūdą]],^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline) related to [[non|skrúð|t=shrouds of a ship; ornament]],^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)^(RHWU) and akin to Old English ''scrēade'', the source of [[shred]],^(Barnhart 1995)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU) from a Proto-Indo-European root ''*skreu-'' “to cut”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A garment, an article of clothing (c. 1000).^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The specific sense to which the word is now chiefly restricted, the cloth in which a corpse is wrapped for burial, dates only from 1570.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline) The nautical sense, the ropes supporting a mast, dates from the mid-15th century (1458) and comes from the idea of “clothing” a mast; a mast without its rigging was said to be naked.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline) The verb meant “to clothe” (before 1300), then “to shelter” and “to conceal” (15th century).^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1000 – a garment.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1995)

+ * before 1300 – verb, to clothe.^(OED 1989)

+ * c. 1402 – verb, to conceal.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1458 – the ropes supporting a mast.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1570 – a burial cloth; verb, to dress for burial.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)

+ * 1942 – a parachute line.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A cloth in which a body is wrapped for burial; a [[winding sheet]].^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Something that conceals, protects or screens, as in ''a shroud of mist''.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(nautical)'' One of the ropes or cables running from a masthead to the sides of a ship to support the mast.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)^(Wiktionary)

+ # One of the lines connecting the harness and canopy of a [[parachute]].^(AHD)^(RHWU)

+ # A protective covering, as over a spacecraft's payload during launch.^(MW Collegiate)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ===Verb===

+ # To conceal from view; to veil or obscure, as in ''shrouded in mystery''.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To wrap (a body) in a burial cloth.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(archaic)'' To shelter; to take shelter.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[enshroud]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[shred]]

+ * [[sheet]]

+ * [[cerement]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}