Sentence examples for cowl from inspiring English sources

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cowl

noun

A monk's hood or hooded robe

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Steve Harris, a principal at ZEDfactory, an architectural firm based near London that designs green residences (pictured), prefers to use a special heat-exchanging wind cowl his company has developed.

The fully professed monk wears the great, or angelical, habit, which consists of the inner and outer rhasons, girdle, cowl (with veil), analvos, and mandyas (mantle).

ʿAbd al-ʿĀl inherited the order's symbols: a red cowl, a veil, and a red banner that belonged to al-Badawī.

As Batman comic books grew grimmer throughout the 1970s and 1980s, it was felt that Batgirl's existence weakened Batman's, and Gordon hung up her cowl.

Monastic dress included habit, girdle or belt, hood or cowl, and scapular (a long narrow cloth worn over the tunic).

"He might not be under the cowl when the story starts but his presence will be a big part of the story and shape it," he said.

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In World War II, the company manufactured cowl-flap motors and other precision devices for Allied aircraft.

It's the jackboots and cowl-neck jumpers that do it.

Some goods do fall firmly in the worthy-but-frumpy category unbleached sheepskin shoes that resemble stuffed pitta breads, for instance, or textured cowl-neck knits that scream "ageing auntie".

Many are the mile-long glory chariots of the 1920s and 1930s, venerable forms of coachwork – sedanca coupés and landaulettes, boat-tail tourers and dual-cowl speedsters – from companies you're never heard of: Lanchester, Minerva, Moon.

His range for Topman is emblematic of a highly specific urban dandy style, with industrial-looking donkey jackets hanging up next to cowl-neck tops, New Romantic shirts and sculpted tweed hunting jackets, all wide-shouldered, triple-darted and with no back flap, to create a uniquely sleek and body-conscious silhouette.

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