shrouded
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English schrouded, equivalent to shroud + -ed.
Adjective
editshrouded (comparative more shrouded, superlative most shrouded)
- Wearing, or provided with a shroud.
- Concealed or hidden from sight, as if by a shroud.
- 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II (Burglary), page 378, column 1:
- She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
- 2022 January 12, Chris Hegg, “The secret railway in the woods”, in RAIL, number 948, page 34:
- I suspect that this large and complex military railway system, shrouded in official secrecy for most of its operational life, remains unknown to many people.
Derived terms
editVerb
editshrouded
- simple past and past participle of shroud