shrouded
English
Etymology
From Middle English schrouded, equivalent to shroud + -ed.
Adjective
shrouded (comparative more shrouded, superlative most shrouded)
- Wearing, or provided with a shroud.
- Concealed or hidden from sight, as if by a shroud.
- 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter II, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, →OCLC:
- She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
- 2022 January 12, Chris Hegg, “The secret railway in the woods”, in RAIL, number 948, page 34:
- I suspect that this large and complex military railway system, shrouded in official secrecy for most of its operational life, remains unknown to many people.
Derived terms
- shrouded gear
- shrouded propeller
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