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say it: shawl
shawl is a noun meaning "cloak consisting of an oblong piece of cloth used to cover the head and shoulders". It carries one recorded sense.
cloak consisting of an oblong piece of cloth used to cover the head and shoulders
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shawl come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.