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
The body of the deceased, dressed in grave clothes, and ornamented with flowers, was placed on a bier, or some elevated spot.
From Castle Rackrent by Edgeworth, Maria
Shortly after they were married he made the discovery that she had prepared the grave clothes for him as well as for herself.
From In Flanders Fields and Other Poems by Macphail, Andrew, Sir
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