0 a loose outer piece of clothing without sleeves, that fastens at the neck, and is worn instead of a coat --
1 something that hides, covers, or keeps something else secret: --
The restaurant he owned was just a cloak for (= hid) his drug-dealing activities.
3 a loose outer piece of clothing without sleeves that fastens at the neck and hangs from the shoulders --
I am not going to discuss the verbal camouflage which cloaks the nuclear armoury.
The whole problem has been cloaked in mystery.
Cuts are cloaked in the language of "efficiency"and"savings".
Alcoholism is perhaps the only addiction—smoking may be the other—for which society has devised elaborate disguises and cloaks of social acceptability.
The profession has been extremely successful in cloaking itself in an expensive mystique.
People outside realise that there is a wholesale traffic, and no amount of cloaking it is going to be of any advantage.
Does he not accept that a redundancy is a redundancy however it may be cloaked and garbed by his statement?
Our fears have allowed the doctors to act with imperious authority, cloaking their lack of knowledge in our greater ignorance.
