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the original wearable mystery, half wardrobe and half disappearing act
means A loose outer garment worn draped over the shoulders without sleeves, or — used as a verb — to cover, conceal, or disguise something.
from From Old French 'cloke' (also 'cloque'), a regional form of 'cloche,' meaning 'bell' — because the garment, hanging wide and round from the shoulders, looked like a bell. That same 'cloche' gave us the bell-shaped hat. So the cloak is, quite literally, a bell you wear, and the modern sense of 'cloaking' something in secrecy is the bell-shape doing what it does best: covering everything beneath it.
- latin root
- comes from cloca, meaning bell, for its shape
- roman shield
- sagum cloaks marked Roman soldiers at war
- invisibility
- physicists built real ones that bend light around objects
- and dagger
- phrase fuses concealment with assassination since the 1840s
- hidden cells
- a cloakroom once meant a secret jail in Parliament
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invisible cloak chinese legend — magical artifact from chinese folklore appearing in various classical tales and legends