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shawl

[shawl] / ʃɔl /


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The dining room table, where the sisters wrote, is strewn with manuscripts, quill pens and tea cups; a bonnet and shawl bedeck a chair in the small kitchen.

From Los Angeles Times May 14, 2026

She looked perfectly angelic in an all-white glittery dress, complete with a flowing fur shawl.

From BBC Feb. 28, 2026

But several wore a red hat, scarf or shawl, recalling the designer's signature colour.

From Barron's Jan. 23, 2026

There’s the pink shawl that keeps getting taken away from her, and the dance-like physicality of her movements.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 8, 2025

Lola was already holding out the shawl she’d had wrapped around her shoulders.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

At the family house, Khaled's grandmother Najah Bani Odeh sat surrounded by mourners in tightly wrapped woollen shawls and headscarves in black, white and brown.

From BBC Mar. 16, 2026

Another, Ben Brierley, enlisted his family in making shawls.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 28, 2025

For his buyers, the shawls are a sign of luxury.

From BBC May 2, 2025

Keep blankets or shawls available for guests in case the temperature drops during the evening.

From Seattle Times Jun. 4, 2024

We’d run outside to watch the caravan plod through our street, men with dusty, weather-beaten faces and women dressed in long, colorful shawls, beads, and silver bracelets around their wrists and ankles.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini




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