caul

English

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Alternative forms

• call [16th-17th c.]

Etymology

From Middle French cale.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /kɔːl/

Noun

caul (plural cauls)

1. (historical) A style of close-fitting circular cap worn by women in the 16th century and later, often made of linen. [from 14th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:

     Ne spared they to strip her naked all. / Then when they had despoild her tire and call, / Such as she was, their eyes might her behold [...].

2. (anatomy, obsolete except in specific senses) A membrane. [14th-17th c.]
3. The thin membrane which covers the lower intestines; the omentum. [from 14th c.]
4. The amnion which encloses the foetus before birth, especially that part of it which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth (traditionally considered to be good luck). [from 16th c.]
5. The surface of a press that makes contact with panel product, especially a removable plate or sheet.
6. (woodworking) A strip or block of wood used to distribute or direct clamping force

Translations

a style of close-fitting circular cap

• French: coiffe (fr) f
• Japanese: コール (ja) (kōru)

• Russian: чепчик (ru) (čépčik) m, чепец (ru) (čepéc) m, сетка (ru) (sétka) f (для воло́с), (плетёная) шляпка (ru) (šljápka) f

the thin membrane which covers the lower intestines

• Bulgarian: було (bg) (bulo) n
• Finnish: vatsakalvo (fi)

• Russian: мембрана (ru) (membrána) f, перепонка (ru) (perepónka) f

part of the amniotic sac which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胎膜 (cmn) (tāimó), 胎衣 (cmn) (tāiyī) (placenta and caul)

• Finnish: onnenhattu (fi)
• German: Glückshaube (de) f

• Russian: рубашка (ru) (rubáška) f (colloquial, "shirt"), водная оболочка плода (ru) (vódnaja obolóčka plodá) f
• Swedish: segerhuva (sv) c, segerhatta (sv) c, visdomshuva (sv) c

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