shroud

IPA: ʃrˈaʊd

That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
(nautical) One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
(astronautics) A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
The branching top of a tree; foliage.

Examples of "shroud" in Sentences

But she showed me, too, her shroud -- her _shroud_!
"None other shroud is worthy of thy virtues!" cried he.
The shroud is interesting to me because it is a very old legitimate medieval hoax.
First of all, the payload shroud is simply not as roomy -- i.e. useful --- as that upon ARES V.
The shrouds used to cover the faces of the dead were often decayed by bacteria in the mouth, revealing the corpse's teeth, and vampires became known as shroud-eaters.
Many Catholics look to Rome for direction on how to evaluate the shroud, as Pope John Paul II discovered en route to Africa in 1989, when he called the shroud a "relic."
Tears did not fall from her father’s eyes — not then, as her mother gasped her last; not later, when she herself wailed lustily at the indignity of being thrust out of the womb; and not after, when both mother and child were each bundled as appropriate, in shroud and blanket respectively.
The case of the Turin shroud is here symptomal: its authenticity would be awful for every true believer (the first thing to do then would be to analyze the DNA of the blood stains and thus solve empirically the question of who Jesus 'father was ...), while a true fundamentalist would rejoice in this opportunity.