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winding sheet

noun

shroud ( def 1 ).
a mass of tallow or wax that has run down and hardened on the side of a candle, sometimes considered an omen of misfortune.

winding sheet

late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425

If you use it wisely, it may be Ulysses' hauberk; if you reject it, the shirt of Nessus were a cooler winding-sheet!

Long trails of a pale tint simulated upon the water the folds of a winding-sheet.

I began to know Rome better, and cast aside the winding-sheet which had enwrapped me, as it were.

He is a fearful-looking deity, cadaverous as a skeleton, and wrapped in a winding sheet.

She sickened, and before many suns went down she lay in her winding sheet.

April 25, 2024firkin

[fur-kin ]

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