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What is the noun for shroud?

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shroud
  1. That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
  2. Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
  3. That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
  4. A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
  5. The branching top of a tree; foliage.
  6. (nautical) A rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways.
  7. One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
  8. Synonyms:
      9. cover, pall, veil, blanket, cloak, mantle, covering, cloud, curtain, envelope, mask, sheet, coverture, layer, overlay, penumbra, screen, shadow, canopy, hood, shade, cope, wraps, cover-up, robe, film, veneer, mass, billow, blind, puff, wrap, carpet, coat, shield, surface, dense mass, column, wrapper, cape, coating, gloom, darkness, skin, plume, camouflage, thickness, smoke, cloth, wall … more
  9. Examples:
      10. “Just as we hit La Jolla, we were enveloped in a thick shroud of fog.”
      “He detested the man he had always secretly been behind the shroud of respectability he wore in public.”
      “The pony-tailed Kimo walked into the arena wearing a shroud and lugging a big wooden cross on his shoulders.”
shrouder
  1. Agent noun of shroud: one who shrouds or conceals things.
  2. A slaughterhouse worker whose primary job is attaching a cloth or canvas cover to a beef carcass.
shrouding
  1. A shroud (annular plate at the periphery of a water wheel, forming side of bucket).
  2. Synonyms:
      3. eclipse, blocking, obscuring, covering, occultation, veiling, concealment, hiding, obscuration, concealing, obliteration, shading, shroud, veil, blotting out, dissimulation, dissembling, deceit, duplicity, pretence, pretense, deception, dishonesty, guile, misrepresentation, feigning, hypocrisy, subterfuge, faking, falsification, lying, shamming, artifice, bluff, bluffing, cant, cheating, counterfeiting, cozenage, craft, craftiness, crookedness, crookery, cunning, cunningness, deceitfulness, deceptiveness, disguising, dupery … more
shroudings
  1. plural of shrouding
  2. Synonyms:
      3. eclipses, blocking, covering, occultations, veilings, concealment, hiding, obscurations, concealings, obliteration, shadings, shrouds, veils, dissimulation, dissemblings, deceits, duplicity, pretence, pretense, deception, dishonesty, guile, misrepresentation, feignings, hypocrisy, subterfuge, falsification, lyings, artifice, bluff, bluffings, cant, cheating, counterfeitings, cozenages, craft, craftiness, crookedness, crookery, cunning, cunningness, deceitfulness, deceptiveness, disguisings, dupery, fakery, foxiness, fraud, guilefulness … more
shrouders
  1. plural of shrouder
shrouds
  1. plural of shroud
  2. Synonyms:
      3. covers, palls, veils, blankets, cloaks, mantles, covering, clouds, curtains, envelopes, masks, sheets, covertures, layers, overlays, penumbras, screens, shadows, canopies, hoods, shade, copes, cover-ups, robes, film, puff, veneers, mass, billows, wraps, coat, carpet, columns, surfaces, wrappers, blinds, thickness, plumes, cloths, darkness, capes, skin, walls, gloom, smoke, shields, showers, coatings, concealment, camouflage … more
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