graveclothes
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of graveclothes
Example Sentences
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Bound hand and foot with graveclothes; and his face was bound about with a napkin.
From Crime and Punishment by Constance Garnett
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 Wilkie Collins
Now he that was dead came forth bound hand and foot with graveclothes and his face was wound about with a napkin.
From The Gospel of John for Readers by Lightheart
Alessandro, albeit encumbered by the graveclothes, which were very long, also jumped up and made off.
From The Decameron, Volume II by J. M. (James Macmullen) Rigg
The place is a tomb and it stinks of graveclothes.
From Youth Challenges by Clarence Budington Kelland
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