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cloak noun (HIDE)

/kləʊk/US pronunciation symbol/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)

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