Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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Definition
cloak noun (HIDE)
/kləʊk/
/kloʊk/ n
/kloʊk/ n [S or U] something which hides, covers or keeps something else secret
The restaurant he owned was just a cloak for (= hid) his drug-dealing activities.
They left the house under cloak of darkness.
(Definition of cloak noun (HIDE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
