a large piece of cloth worn by a woman around the shoulders or head, or wrapped around a baby (女用)披巾,披肩;襁褓 Extra ExamplesTopics Clothes and Fashionc1Ruth draped a shawl over her shoulders. 露丝往肩上披了块披肩。 Ellianne wrapped the shawl around her shoulders. 埃莉安在肩上披了条披肩。 She pulled her shawl about her protectively. 她把披巾紧紧裹在身上。 She was wearing a shawl tied around her waist. 她腰上系着一条披巾。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- heavy
- light
- thin
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- be draped in
- be wrapped in
- drape
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- cover something
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Urdu and Persian šāl, probably from Shāliāt, the name of a town in India.