cerecloth
noun
cloth coated or impregnated with wax so as to be waterproof, formerly used for wrapping the dead, for bandages, etc.
cerecloths
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pluralof cerecloth.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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By it he placed his lamp, and then squatting down beside it in Eastern fashion he began with long quivering fingers to undo the cerecloths and bandages which girt it round.
From The Captain of the Polestar by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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 William John Locke
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 Vernon Lee
And the faint ghosts in cerecloths, and the horrible shapes of the mist....
From The Wind Bloweth by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
Break thou the covering cerecloths; rise up from the dead.
From Songs Before Sunrise by Algernon Charles Swinburne
