Talk:Moonflair Spellblade/@comment-50.41.187.239-20110510000609/@comment-8.225.186.193-20110510153810

Cloak and dagger is a term sometimes used to refer to situations involving intrigue, secrecy, espionage, or mystery. The phrase has two possible origins. One dates from the early 19th century and is a translation from the French de cape et d'épée and Spanish de capa y espada (literally "of cloak and sword"). These phrases referred to a genre of drama in which the main characters literally wore these items. In 1840, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote, "In the afternoon read La Dama Duende of Calderón - a very good comedy of 'cloak and sword'." Charles Dickens subsequently used the phrase "cloak and dagger" in his work Barnaby Rudge a year later as a sarcastic reference to this style of drama.[1] The imagery of these two items became associated with the archetypical spy or assassin: The cloak, worn to hide one's identity or remain hidden from view, and the dagger, a concealable and silent weapon.

-- wikipedia (after literally 5 seconds of searching which you apparently couldn't put yourself through)