shroud
noun
a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
"Egypt and Rome, the Faces of Fayum", opening Wednesday at Rome's Ara Pacis museum, also includes mummies, masks, shrouds, jewellery, marble busts and statuary.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
Iranian state television released footage showing dozens of bodies in shrouds lined up inside and outside of a morgue near Tehran on Sunday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026
The news agency also reported seeing bodies wrapped in white shrouds at Nasser hospital.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025
Yet despair shrouds Vuong’s characters, immigrants and other outsiders for whom the American Dream isn’t an inkling.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2025
Behind loomed up the Buck Hill; and out of it, through stray shrouds of mist, shone many round windows, yellow and red.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
