Dictionary Entry

cowl

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/kaʊl/Used In Literature ↓

A monk's hood that can be pulled forward to cover the face; a robe with such a hood attached to it.

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Common Phrases

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Poetry examples for “cowl”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

When doom'd to say his beads and even-song;
But having cast his cowl, and left those laws,
Adds to Christ's prayer, the Power and Glory clause.

JAMES LANE ALLEN, author of Sister Dolorosa, A
Kentucky Colonel, The White Cowl, Butterflies, The
Choir Invisible, etc.

And let a daughter's hope be on thy tomb;
Be both, on thy gray head, a leaden cowl _15
To weigh thee down to thine approaching doom.

I like a church; I like a cowl;
I love a prophet of the soul;

Thy heart with hollow joy for hollow good ?
Why cowl thy face beneath the mourner's hood ?
Why waste thy sighs, and thy lamenting voices,

Whene'er the firebrand's fickle light
Glances beneath his cowl!
Full on our Lord he sets his eye;

Whene’er the firebrand’s fickle light
Glances beneath his cowl!
Full on our lord he sets his eye;