The cowl does not make the monk.
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Cowl
//kaʊl//
Synonyms for "cowl" (59 found)
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1 entriesTranslations
72 translations across 31 languages.
Adyghe
1 entries- шъхьарыхъон noun (monk's hood or robe)
Armenian
1 entries- գլխանոց noun (monk's hood or robe)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- kapüşon noun (monk's hood or robe)
Bulgarian
2 entries- капак noun (covering over engine)
- качулка noun (monk's hood or robe)
Czech
3 entries- kapuce noun (monk's hood or robe)
- kutna noun (monk's hood or robe)
- kápě noun (monk's hood or robe)
Danish
1 entries- kutte noun (monk's hood or robe)
Dutch
2 entries- kovel noun (monk's hood or robe)
- pij noun (monk's hood or robe)
Esperanto
2 entries- kapuĉmantelo noun (monk's hood or robe)
- kukulo noun (monk's hood or robe)
Finnish
4 entries- huppu noun (monk's hood or robe)
- huppu noun (mask)
- kaapu noun (monk's hood or robe)
- konekoppa noun (covering over engine)
French
3 entries- capuchon noun (covering over engine)
- capuchon noun (chimney covering)
- froc noun (monk's hood or robe)
Galician
2 entries- capuchón noun (monk's hood or robe)
- cugula noun (monk's hood or robe)
Georgian
1 entries- კაპიუშონი noun (monk's hood or robe)
German
3 entries- Kutte noun (monk's hood or robe)
- Mönchskutte noun (monk's hood or robe)
- Schornsteinaufsatz noun (chimney covering)
Hungarian
4 entries- csuha noun (monk's hood or robe)
- csuklya noun (monk's hood or robe)
- habitus noun (monk's hood or robe)
- kámzsa noun (monk's hood or robe)
Icelandic
2 entries- munkahetta noun (monk's hood or robe)
- vélarhlíf noun (covering over engine)
Italian
1 entries- cappuccio noun (monk's hood or robe)
Korean
1 entries- 두건 noun (monk's hood or robe)
Latin
1 entries- cuculla noun (monk's hood or robe)
Macedonian
4 entries- ка́пак noun (covering over engine)
- ка́пак noun (chimney covering)
- качулка noun (monk's hood or robe)
- пе́тле noun (chimney covering)
Norwegian
2 entries- cowling noun (covering over engine)
- motordeksel noun (covering over engine)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- kutte noun (monk's hood or robe)
- munkekutte noun (monk's hood or robe)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- kutte noun (monk's hood or robe)
- munkekutte noun (monk's hood or robe)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- باشلق noun (monk's hood or robe)
Polish
4 entries- kapica noun (monk's hood or robe)
- kaptur noun (monk's hood or robe)
- kapuca noun (monk's hood or robe)
- kapuza noun (monk's hood or robe)
Portuguese
1 entries- capelo noun (monk's hood or robe)
Russian
2 entries- капо́т noun (covering over engine)
- капюшо́н noun (monk's hood or robe)
Scots
1 entries- auld wife noun (chimney covering)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- cailleach noun (chimney covering)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- kapuljača noun (monk's hood or robe)
Spanish
2 entries- capucha noun (monk's hood or robe)
- cogulla noun (monk's hood or robe)
Zazaki
3 entries- cherme noun (monk's hood or robe)
- çerm noun (monk's hood or robe)
- çherm noun (monk's hood or robe)
Sample sentences
22 total sentences available.
Mary wore a cowl neck sweater to the party.
Source: tatoeba (10797699)
My sister crocheted a cowl for me.
Source: tatoeba (11519147)
c. 1536, William Tyndale, An Exposycyon vpon the v. vi. vii. Chapters of Mathewe, An Exposycyon of the syxte Capiter, And therfore al our monkes whose professyon was neuer to eate fleshe, set vp the Pope and toke dispensacyons bothe for that faste and also for theyr strayte rules, and made theyr strayte rules as wyde as the hodes of theyr cowles.
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