graveclothes

American  

[greyv-klohz, -klohthz] / ˈgreɪvˌkloʊz, -ˌkloʊðz /

plural noun

1. the clothes clothes or wrappings in which a body is buried; cerements.

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Etymology

Origin of graveclothes

First recorded in 1525–35; grave ¹ + clothes

Example Sentences

Bound hand and foot with graveclothes; and his face was bound about with a napkin.

From Crime and Punishment by Garnett, Constance

Art has no business with real graveclothes when she wants tragic drapery—has she?

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir

The place is a tomb and it stinks of graveclothes.

From Youth Challenges by Kelland, Clarence Budington

Then they stood, the pair of them, in Robert Turold’s bedroom, looking down on the dead man, swathed in his graveclothes, with a wreath of flowers from Mrs. Pendleton on his breast.

From The Moon Rock by Rees, Arthur J. (Arthur John)

Then the woman—for it was a woman—advanced slowly towards us, and as she came we saw that she was draped in graveclothes.

From Montezuma's Daughter by Haggard, Henry Rider