"cloaking" meaning in English

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      "form": "cloakings",
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          "text": "May 15, 1555, Hugh Latimer, letter to the lovers of God's truth\nto take heed of their dissemblings and cloakings"
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          "text": "I assure you, if I were Hazlewood I should look on his compliments, his bowings, his cloakings, his shawlings, and his handings with some little suspicion; and truly I think Hazlewood does so too at some odd times.",
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        "The act of wrapping or covering with a cloak."
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        "The material from which cloaks are made."
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          "text": "May 15, 1555, Hugh Latimer, letter to the lovers of God's truth\nto take heed of their dissemblings and cloakings"
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        "The act of wrapping or covering with a cloak."
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