Cloak /(klōk; 110)/

Cloak

n.
  1. A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women.
  2. That which conceals; a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a fair pretense; a mask; a cover.
    No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak.

Phrases & Compounds
Cloak bag
a bag in which a cloak or other clothes are carried; a portmanteau.

Cloak

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Cloaked; p. pr. & vb. n. Cloaking

  1. To cover with, or as with, a cloak; hence, to hide or conceal.
    Now glooming sadly, so to cloak her matter.