grave clothes

plural noun

1. the wrappings in which a dead body is interred

Example Sentences

“On Easter morning the gospel accounts of the resurrection would be re-enacted with ‘disciples’ acting out a presentation in which they would enter a makeshift tomb and bring out the grave clothes to show that Christ had indeed risen,” he said.

From The Guardian

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 Literature

And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot in his grave clothes, and with his head tied up in a cloth.

From Project Gutenberg

The dead man, though wrapped up in his grave clothes, arose and was unloosed before witnesses at the entrance of the vault.

From Project Gutenberg

It comes to the window up there and bows, and flutters its grave clothes—and—and all that.”

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• cloak 
• pall 
• veil