0 a loose coat without sleeves that hangs down from your shoulders -- peleryna
1 something that is intended to cover or hide the truth of something else -- mgiełka lub płaszczyk czegoś
Audiences, after all, paid to watch kings and princes perform on the stage and to watch boys don the personae and - literally - the cloaks of majesty.
More signicant was what the gift of cloaks symbolized: the restitution of respect and honor to the father-in-law lost by the son-in-law's immodest behavior and his deance of elders.
Nobles wore elaborately adorned cloaks made of maguey as well as cotton, and decoration was as impor tant as the type of cloth in terms of social distinctions.
The discourse on literacy thus both ruptures the pre-war gender system at the same time that it cloaks these ruptures in the service of restoring the gender statusquo.
The production of a novel (or any textual object) is a complex process, and its very complexity is often cloaked by ideals about the solitary, unitary author.
They simply merged back into what was often a chaotic social cauldron in which anonymity cloaked, to the point of invisibility, those who lived a transient existence.
Everything was cloaked by the dense fog.
Our fears have allowed the doctors to act with imperious authority, cloaking their lack of knowledge in our greater ignorance.
