grave clothes
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Moore never drew on the spot, because "that would have been the essence of rudeness," but he remembered London's buried heroism well, in drawings of catacombish tunnels filled with mummies swaddled in grave clothes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Better even than the workmen, admirers of Mr. Kalish liked his Christ, a taut figure in grave clothes.
From Time Magazine Archive
He remembered wondering what it would have been like to witness Jesus roll the stone away from Lazarus’s tomb and watch the dead man walk out, still wearing his grave clothes.
From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley
The dead man, though wrapped up in his grave clothes, arose and was unloosed before witnesses at the entrance of the vault.
From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Paul Henry Thiry Baron d' Holbach
Examples of this work can be seen in many museums; they consist frequently of decorative panels of tapestry work inlaid in linen tunics and stuffs that have been used as grave clothes.
From Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving by Grace Christie
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