cerecloth
Americannoun
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cerecloths
plural
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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
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Etymology
Origin of cerecloth
1400–50; late Middle English; earlier cered cloth; see cere 2
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It were too gross To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.
From The Death-Wake or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras by Andrew Lang
It dropped the cerecloth from its fleshless face And smiled on me, with a remembered grace That, like the noontide, lit the gloaming's gloom.
From Poems of Passion by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
When, by farther removal of the cerecloth, they had disengaged the entire head, they found it to be loose from the body.
From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by David Masson
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 M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel
The skeleton was found still wrapped in a cerecloth, and in the record of the church is a memorandum of payment "for a terpauling to wrap Mr. Mitchell."
From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle
“Not if it were wrought of the cerecloths of the damned!”
From The Lady of the Shroud by Bram Stoker
By it he placed his lamp, and then squatting down beside it in Eastern fashion he began with long quivering fingers to undo the cerecloths and bandages which girt it round.
From The Captain of the Polestar by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The sepulchre is open, guards asleep or stretching themselves, and yawning all round; and childish young angels look reverently into the empty grave, rearranging the cerecloths, and trying to roll back the stone lid.
From Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion by Vernon Lee
And the faint ghosts in cerecloths, and the horrible shapes of the mist....
From The Wind Bloweth by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
Break thou the covering cerecloths; rise up from the dead.
From Songs Before Sunrise by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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