shawl – English noun declension

English noun forms of shawl

Noun: shawl
Singularshawl
Pluralshawls

Sample Sentences

  • She wears her shawl when it's cold outside.
  • Just then Norbourne entered the chamber; and, fancying from her attitude that his wife was asleep, he approached softly, and drew a large shawl around her. [1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 60:]
  • Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,[…], and the light of the reflector fell full upon her. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
  • "In the coach in which I rode, there was a vacant seat till our arrival in Birmingham. Leaving Birmingham I found it filled with a fat Englishman, in drab breeches and gaiter boots, the finest specimen of a thorough John Bull that I had seen—weight about sixteen stone. He wore two top coats, a broad brimmed hat, and an enormous red travelling shawl, behind the folds of which his portly double chin was entirely hidden. [1958 October 26, “Liverpool to London in 1842”, in Railway Magazine, page 682:]
  • Jessamy turned. Her uplifted candle showed a dark handsome young women in a black dress. She wore a wide shawl over her head which hung down on either side, only partially hiding a starched, white apron.. [1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 26:]

Etymology

From Hindi शाल (śāl) and Urdu شال (śāl), from Persian شال (šâl).

Verbs referencing "shawl"

German Nouns Schal, Hungarian Nouns sál, Danish Nouns sjal, Icelandic Nouns sjal, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns sjal, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns sjal, Swedish Nouns sjal, Ukrainian Nouns шаль, Dutch Nouns sjaal, Irish Nouns seál.