0 a piece of cloth a woman wears around her shoulders or head -- sjal [ neuter ]
1 a piece of fabric used as a covering for the shoulders etc. -- sjal
The girls then are asked to drape their bodies with shawls or sheets of cloth in which they naturally feel quite awkward.
The province had extensive wool-based manufacture-blankets, shawls and carpets.
Of the major wool-using sectors, neither carpets, nor shawls, nor the better quality blankets or woollen garments, could utilize the common wool of the plains.
They usually wore the (tribal) shawl and headband.
When they went outdoors, the wrapper was covered with a shawl.
With shawls, then, the novel again gives us three of something for no apparent reason.
Sarah always wore a hand-knitted shawl around her shoulders.
Neither ascribing beauty to an article of clothing nor making the shawl an object with character and personality was new, but the context of these rhetorical strategies was.
