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the monk's hood that became Batman's wardrobe and your engine's nose.
means A cowl is a draped hood or covering — originally a monk's hooded garment, now also the metal panel covering an engine or the protective cap atop a chimney.
from From Old English 'cugele' or 'cufle', borrowed from Late Latin 'cuculla', a hooded cloak — itself related to 'cucullus', a hood or cap. The word entered English in the monastic world, naming the deep hood worn by monks, and over centuries slid outward to anything that hoods or covers something else: chimneys, ventilators, and eventually the sheet of metal that hoods an engine.
- car part
- names the panel between hood and windshield
- monastic root
- from Latin cucullus, a hooded cloak
- chimney duty
- caps flues to stop downdraft and rain
- superhero staple
- Batman's mask is technically a cowl
- jet engine
- cowling is the streamlined cover over machinery
batmobile cowl — the hood covering batman's vehicle, iconic in dc comics and tim burton's 1989 film
spitfire cowling — the aerodynamic engine covering on the wwii supermarine spitfire fighter aircraft
notre-dame cowl vent — the roof ventilation hood on the 12th-century cathedral in paris