well-cloaked-up

Updated: May 19, 2025

Every window of the ark was crowded with faces at the sound; the leathern curtains were undrawn to their curious eyes, and out sprang a gentleman, who carefully assisted a well-cloaked-up lady into the little inn, despite the landlady's assurances of not having a room to spare. If I remember right, Pen trê Voelas is twenty miles across the bleakest mountain road I ever saw."

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Ruth