cloaking

cloaking

1. present participle and gerund of cloak

cloaking (countable and uncountable, plural cloakings)

1. The act of wrapping or covering with a cloak.
   • May 15, 1555, Hugh Latimer, letter to the lovers of God's truth

     to take heed of their dissemblings and cloakings

   • 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:

     I assure you, if I were Hazlewood I should look on his compliments, his bowings, his cloakings, his shawlings, and his handings with some little suspicion; and truly I think Hazlewood does so too at some odd times.

2. The material from which cloaks are made.
   • 1908, Fibre & Fabric, page 21:

     Fcy. goods, cassimeres, cloakings, piece dyes, noils, mohair, and raw stock wool and cotton.

3. (SEO) The technique of presenting search engine spiders with content that differs from that seen by human users, usually for spamdexing purposes.

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