cerecloth

American  

[seer-klawth, -kloth] / ˈsɪərˌklɔθ, -ˌklɒθ /

noun

plural

cerecloths

1. cloth coated or impregnated with wax so as to be waterproof, formerly used for wrapping the dead, for bandages, etc.

2. a piece of such cloth.

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cerecloth British  

/ ˈsɪəˌklɒθ /

noun

1. waxed waterproof cloth of a kind formerly used as a shroud

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Etymology

Origin of cerecloth

1400–50; late Middle English; earlier cered cloth; cere ²

Example Sentences

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 Project Gutenberg

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.

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I shut the drawer again hurriedly, and that doll in its silver paper cerecloth haunted me all night.

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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.

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The sensation stirred by that faintest of odors had been agreeable; there was nothing suggestive of grave-mold or cerecloth about it.

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Related Words

• cloak
• pall
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