Etymology

Noun

1. That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
2. Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
3. That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
4. A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
5. The branching top of a tree; foliage.
6. A rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways.
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7. One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.

Verb

1. To cover with a shroud.
2. : To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.

   The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.