shawl

A square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders, typically by women.

• She wears her shawl when it's cold outside.

A fold of wrinkled flesh under the lips and neck of a bloodhound, used in scenting.

To wrap in a shawl.transitive

• Rebecca was shawling her in an upper apartment , where these two friends had an opportunity for a little of that secret talking and conspiring which forms the delight of female life