shroud

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɹaʊd/
• Rhymes: -aʊd

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Etymology 1

From Middle English schroud, from Old English scrūd, from Proto-Germanic *skrūdą. Cognate with Old Norse skrúð (“the shrouds of a ship”) ( > Danish, Norwegian skrud (“splendid attire”)).

Noun

shroud (plural shrouds)

1. That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
   • (Can we date this quote by Sandys and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds

   • 2019 April 25, Samanth Subramanian, “Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Every time we came a research area, we had to pause while the scientists threw grey shrouds over prototypes that I wasn’t to see.

2. Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 2

     Yet let us goǃ England is in her shroud - we may not enchain ourselves to a corpse.

   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

     a dead man in his shroud

3. That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
   • (Can we date this quote by Byron and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Jura answers through her misty shroud.

4. A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
   • (Can we date this quote by Chapman and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     The shroud to which he won / His fair-eyed oxen.

   • (Can we date this quote by Withals and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     a vault, or shroud, as under a church

5. (nautical) A rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways.
6. One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.

Synonyms

• sindon

Translations

dress for the dead

• Arabic: كفن m (kafan)
• Armenian: սավան (hy) (savan), պատան (hy) (patan)
• Azerbaijani: kəfən
• Basque: hiljantzi
• Dutch: lijkwade (nl) f, lijkgewaad (nl) f, doodskleed (nl) n, lijkdoek m
• Finnish: käärinliina (fi), kuolinvaate
• French: linceul (fr) m, suaire (fr) m
• German: Leichentuch (de) n
• Greek: σάβανο (el) n (sávano)

  Ancient Greek: σπεῖρον n (speîron)

• Hungarian: halotti lepel
• Ilocano: talakbong
• Indonesian: kafan (id)
• Irish: taiséadach m, taisléine f
• Italian: sudario (it) m, sindone (it) f
• Kumyk: гебин (gebin)
• Kurdish:
• Ladino: mortaja
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: brandeum n
• Malay: kafan
• Maori: puraku, purutapu
• Middle English: shroud
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: svøp n, likskjorte m or f, liksvøp n

• Persian: کفن (fa) (kefen)
• Polish: całun (pl) m
• Portuguese: mortalha (pt) f, sudário (pt) m
• Russian: са́ван (ru) m (sávan), пелена́ (ru) f (pelená), покро́в (ru) m (pokróv)
• Scottish Gaelic: anart-bàis m
• Somali: kafan
• Spanish: sudario (es) m, mortaja (es) f
• Swedish: svepning (sv) c
• Tagalog: lalab
• Turkish: kefen (tr)
• Westrobothnian:

mast support

• Danish: vant (da)
• Dutch: want (nl) n
• Finnish: vantti (fi)
• French: hauban (fr) m
• German: Want (de) f or n
• Hebrew: רִכְסָה (he) f (rikhsah), וַנְטָה (he) f (vantah), יֶתֶר צַד (he) m (yeter tsad)
• Hungarian: vantni
• Irish: scriúta m
• Italian: sartia (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Manx: aarey f
• Maori: waewae
• Norwegian: vant (no)
• Polish: wanta (pl) f
• Portuguese: brandal m
• Russian: ва́нты m pl (vánty)
• Scottish Gaelic: fàradh m (collectively)
• Spanish: obenquillo m
• Swedish: vant (sv)

Etymology 2

From Middle English schrouden (> Anglo-Latin scrudāre), from Middle English schroud (“shroud”) (see above).

Verb

shroud (third-person singular simple present shrouds, present participle shrouding, simple past and past participle shrouded)

1. To cover with a shroud.
   • Template:RQ:Bacon SS

     The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.

2. To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.

   The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.

   The truth behind their weekend retreat was shrouded in obscurity.

   • Template:RQ:Raleigh History

     One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen.

   • (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Some tempest rise, / And blow out all the stars that light the skies, / To shroud my shame.

3. To take shelter or harbour.
   • 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:

     If your stray attendance be yet lodged, / Or shroud within these limits.

Translations

to veil or conceal

• Italian: velare (it), celare (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Etymology 3

Variant of shred.

Noun

shroud (plural shrouds)

1. The branching top of a tree; foliage.
   • 1611, King James Version, “xxxi.iii”, in Ezekiel‎^[2], Barker edition:

     Behold, the Assyrian was a Cedar in Lebanon with faire branches, and with a shadowing shrowd, and of an hie stature, and his top was among the thicke boughes.

Verb

shroud (third-person singular simple present shrouds, present participle shrouding, simple past and past participle shrouded)

1. (transitive, UK, dialect) To lop the branches from (a tree).

   Synonym: shrood

References

• Shroud (sailing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “shroud”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “shroud”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.