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
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of cerecloth
1400–50; late Middle English; earlier cered cloth; see cere 2
Example Sentences
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And his grave shall be 'Neath the chestnut tree, Where he met my sister many years ago; Leave that tress of hair On his bosom there— Wrap the cerecloth round him!
From Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon by Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop
He was dead; and she saw him lying straight and cold in a padded coffin, with his hands crossed and cerecloth stiffly tying up his jaws.
From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden
It were too gross To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.
From The Death-Wake or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras by Lang, Andrew
Baba Mustafa quickly made the cerecloth of fitting length and breadth, and Morgiana paid him the promised Ashrafi; then once more bandaging his eyes led him back to the place whence she had brought him.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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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