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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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
The skeleton was found still wrapped in a cerecloth, and in the record of the church is a memorandum of payment "for a terpauling to wrap Mr. Mitchell."
From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Earle, Alice Morse
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
It were too gross To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.”—
From Adventures Among Books by Lang, Andrew
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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