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caul (kawl) a piece of amnion sometimes enveloping a child's head at birth.
caul [kôl] Etymology: ME, cawel, basket an intact amniotic sac surrounding the fetus at birth. The sac usually ruptures or is ruptured during the course of labor or delivery. When it remains intact, it must be torn or cut to allow the baby to breathe. In the past, pieces of the caul were sold to sailors as a good luck token that would protect the bearer from death by drowning. caul, caul fat meat hygiene term for the omentum and its contained fat depots. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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those made and sold in penny-widths up to six pennies wide, such as tapes, ribbons, garters, fringes, tassels, galloons, girdles, inkles, cauls, trimmings, gimps, hatbands, braids and livery and other laces" (24). In Blood Meridian (1985), a tale of Western scalp hunters, death is all butchery and business, murder for profit in a landscape of terra damnata: "They moved among the dead harvesting the long black locks with their knives and leaving their victims rawskulled and strange in their bloody cauls. |
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