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
Example Sentences
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Many of the teeth remained, and the left ear, in consequence of the interposition of some unctuous matter between it and the cerecloth, was found entire.
From Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland by Choules, J.O.
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)
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
Within this was a wooden coffin, much decayed, and the body carefully wrapped in cerecloth, into the folds of which an unctuous matter mixed with resin had been melted, to exclude the external air.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 558, July 21, 1832 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
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