cerecloth
Americannoun
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cloth coated or impregnated with wax so as to be waterproof, formerly used for wrapping the dead, for bandages, etc.
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a piece of such cloth.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of cerecloth
1400–50; late Middle English; earlier cered cloth; see cere 2
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His sister brought the cerecloth that she took in the Waste Chapel, and presented there where the Graal was.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Evans, Sebastian
When, by farther removal of the cerecloth, they had disengaged the entire head, they found it to be loose from the body.
From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by Masson, David
He speaks the words to Burbage, the young player who stands before him beyond the rack of cerecloth, calling him by a name: Hamlet, I am thy father's spirit, bidding him list.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
The coffin was completely full, and, from-the tenacity of the cerecloth, great difficulty was experienced in detaching it successfully from the parts which it developed.
From Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland by Choules, J.O.
Many of the teeth remained, and the left ear, in consequence of the interposition of some unctuous matter between it and the cerecloth, was found entire.
From Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland by Choules, J.O.
“Not if it were wrought of the cerecloths of the damned!”
From The Lady of the Shroud by Stoker, Bram
By it he placed his lamp, and then squatting down beside it in Eastern fashion he began with long quivering fingers to undo the cerecloths and bandages which girt it round.
From The Captain of the Polestar by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
When they took off my cerecloths and sent me back to Wellingsford, Betty was the first to smile her dear welcome.
From The Red Planet by Locke, William John
And the faint ghosts in cerecloths, and the horrible shapes of the mist....
From The Wind Bloweth by Donn-Byrne, Brian Oswald
I have not robbed the dead of their loaves and cerecloths.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
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