shroud

• n. ライフジャケット; 覆い; 船のバウスプリット; [電]シュラウド
• vt.覆う; 死体を包む

古英語のscrud（衣服、覆い）から、西ゲルマン語*skrud（切る、剪断する）から、PIE*sker（切る、剪断する）から、語源的にはshred（細断する、剪断する）と同じである。

shroud

shroud: [OE] Shroud originally meant simply ‘garment’ – a sense which survived into the early modern English period (‘My princely robes are laid aside, whose glittering pomp Diana’s shrouds supplies’, Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe, Dido Queen of Carthage 1594). Not until the late 16th century did the modern meaning ‘winding-sheet’ begin to emerge. The word derives ultimately from the prehistoric West Germanic base *skraud-, *skreud-, *skrud- ‘cut’ (source also of English shred).
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shroud (n.)

Old English scrud "a garment, clothing, dress," from West Germanic *skruthan, from Proto-Germanic *skrud- "cut" (cognates: Old Norse skrue "shrouds of a ship, tackle, gear; furniture of a church," Danish, Swedish skrud "dress, attire"), from PIE *skreu- "to cut" (see shred (n.)).

Specific meaning "winding-sheet, cloth or sheet for burial," to which the word now is restricted, first attested 1560s. Sense of "strong rope supporting the mast of a ship" (mid-15c.) is from the notion of "clothing" a spar or mast; one without rigging was said to be naked.

shroud (v.)

c. 1300, "to clothe, to cover, protect," from Old English scrydan, scridan "to clothe, dress;" see shroud (n.). Meaning "to hide from view, conceal" (transitive) is attested from early 15c. Related: Shrouded; shrouding.

1. The organization is cloaked in a shroud of secrecy.

という組織は妖しい雰囲気に包まれている。

2.A shroud of secrecy surrounds the plan.

この計画は神秘的だ。

3.You will have no pockets in your shroud .

あなたは死んでから財産を持って行けません。

4.Ministers are as keen as ever to wrap their activities in a shroud of secrecy.

部長たちは、彼らの行動を神秘的にしようとしている。

5.His past was enveloped in a shroud of mystery.

彼の過去は神秘的な色に包まれていた。