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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

Tears streamed from the eyes of Uwde Sliman, a 40-year-old Ethiopian draped in a white shawl, as she came out of the church.

From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026

The song, performed on the programme barefoot, in a pair of golden-feathered trousers and a red shawl, was followed by a debut album last May.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 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

“May I come upstairs?” she asks, fidgeting with the edge of her shawl.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern




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