graveclothes
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of graveclothes
Example Sentences
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Alessandro, albeit encumbered by the graveclothes, which were very long, also jumped up and made off.
From The Decameron, Volume II by Rigg, J. M. (James Macmullen)
All her life she had been very proud of her fine stock of fair linen, both household and personal; and for many years past had kept her own graveclothes ready in a drawer.
From The Brownies and Other Tales by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty
The place is a tomb and it stinks of graveclothes.
From Youth Challenges by Kelland, Clarence Budington
Now he who was dead came forth bound hand and foot with graveclothes and his face was wound about with a scarf.
From All Four Gospels for Readers by Anonymous
For the photograph was nothing less than that of her husband, dead in his white graveclothes, his hands composed, his eyes closed, his cheek waxen.
From Blind Love by Collins, Wilkie
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