From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishstolestole1 /stəʊl $ stoʊl/ verb x-refthe past tense of steal1stolestole2 noun [countable] DCCa long straight piece of cloth or fur that a woman wears across her shoulders
Examples from the Corpus
stole• She is wearing a black dress and pearls, and a stole is strewn on the front seat.• He came wearing his purple confessor's stole and carrying the little box of sacred oils for the anointing of the dying.• I put them in a box with the stole, wrapped the box and put the box under our tree.Origin stole2 (900-1000) Latin stola “long loose piece of clothing”, from Greek stole 