cerecloth
Americannoun
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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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The sensation stirred by that faintest of odors had been agreeable; there was nothing suggestive of grave-mold or cerecloth about it.
From The Siege of the Seven Suitors by Nicholson, Meredith
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
I cut out of this cerecloth a small square the size of the Bee's thorax; and I insert the magnetised point through a few threads of the material.
From The Mason-Bees by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
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
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 Masson, David
When they took off my cerecloths and sent me back to Wellingsford, Betty was the first to smile her dear welcome.
From The Red Planet by Locke, William John
I have not robbed the dead of their loaves and cerecloths.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
“Not if it were wrought of the cerecloths of the damned!”
From The Lady of the Shroud by Stoker, Bram
Break thou the covering cerecloths; rise up from the dead.
From Songs Before Sunrise by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
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 Lee, Vernon
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