Cloak vs Mantua - What's the difference?
cloak | mantua |
A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=5 A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.
(figurative) That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.
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(Internet) A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.
To cover as with a cloak.
(science fiction, ambitransitive) To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.
Province of Lombardy, Italy.
City and capital of Mantua.
As nouns the difference between cloak and mantua
is that cloak is a long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood while mantua is an article of loose clothing popular in 17th- and 18th century France.As a verb cloak
is to cover as with a cloak.As a proper noun Mantua is
province of Lombardy, Italy.cloak
English
(wikipedia cloak)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’}}
- No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak .
Derived terms
* cloak and daggerSee also
* burnoose, burnous, burnouse * domino costumeVerb
- The ship cloaked before entering the enemy sector of space.
Derived terms
* cloaking devicemantua
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- —He and I / Will watch thy waking, and that very night / Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua.'' — '' , William Shakespeare