cerecloth
Americannoun
plural
cerecloths-
cloth coated or impregnated with wax so as to be waterproof, formerly used for wrapping the dead, for bandages, etc.
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a piece of such cloth.
noun
Etymology
Origin of cerecloth
1400–50; late Middle English; earlier cered cloth; cere 2
Example Sentences
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The best is a sort of cerecloth which he prepares specially with a very fine material.
From The Mason-Bees by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
A year again, and on Inchkeith Isle I saw thee pass in the breeze, With the cerecloth risen above thy feet And wound about thy knees.
From Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages by Various
His sister brought the cerecloth that she took in the Waste Chapel, and presented there where the Graal was.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Evans, Sebastian
Madam Gillin answered it in person, bedizened in a weird wrapper, a wisp of soiled crape wound over the curl-papers about her head and under her chin like a cerecloth.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
The mode spreads—then rushes into rage: to breathe is to be obsolete: to wear the shroud becomes comme il faut, this cerecloth acquiring all the attractiveness and éclat of a wedding-garment.
From Prince Zaleski by Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)
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