grave clothes
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Moore never drew on the spot, because "that would have been the essence of rudeness," but he remembered London's buried heroism well, in drawings of catacombish tunnels filled with mummies swaddled in grave clothes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Better even than the workmen, admirers of Mr. Kalish liked his Christ, a taut figure in grave clothes.
From Time Magazine Archive
He remembered wondering what it would have been like to witness Jesus roll the stone away from Lazarus’s tomb and watch the dead man walk out, still wearing his grave clothes.
From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley
It was no less than her dead hopes, clad in their grave clothes, which told her that Gaston Cheverny was no more.
From Francezka by Seawell, Molly Elliot
Servants got talking a few days ago—said they saw shadows in grave clothes going through the woods.
From The Gray Mask by Camp, Wadsworth
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