cerecloth
Americannoun
plural
cerecloths-
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
Etymology
Origin of cerecloth
1400–50; late Middle English; earlier cered cloth; see cere 2
Example Sentences
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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
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 Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
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.
From Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages by Various
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
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
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