shroud
Origin of shroud
Synonyms for shroud
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veil, cloak, pall, envelope, sheet, garment, dress, screen, cover, shelter, shade, wrap, vault, shadow, clothing, cerement, cereclothExamples from the Web for shroud
Contemporary Examples of shroud
The shawl, we learn, weaves its way through Mexican life, from its use as a baby carrier to a shroud used to bury the dead.
The most famous ones are the Mandylion of Edessa, the Veronica and the Shroud of Turin.
Indeed, the Shroud is as difficult to understand, in its way, as the Resurrection.
Overall, the 1988 carbon-dating has made little difference to sindonology (as study of the Shroud is known).
Ultimately, it is worry about what the Shroud might mean that determines its rejection by modern rationalists.
Historical Examples of shroud
And yet the idea cleaves to me strangely, and is liable to stick to my shroud.
The skirt of her shroud hung like a wet weed in the falling torrent.
Wilfrid CumbermedeGeorge MacDonald
They are mere ghosts, their skeletons wrapped in a shroud of whitewash.
Byzantine Churches in ConstantinopleAlexander Van Millingen
Rauff speaks of a woman of Bohemia, who, in 1355, had eaten in her grave half her shroud.
The Phantom WorldAugustin Calmet
Many women veil and shroud their heads in black as she does.
The Treasure TrailMarah Ellis Ryan