Winding-sheet synonyms

wīn'dĭng-shēt'

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cerecloth
Cloth treated with wax or a similar substance, esp. one used formerly to wrap a dead person for burial
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cerement
Cerecloth.
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cerements
Plural form of cerement
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graveclothes
The clothes in which a corpse is buried.
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shroud
To cover with a shroud.
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corpse wrapping
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pall
The definition of a pall is a black cloth put on a coffin at a funeral or a feeling of sadness or gloom that comes over people.
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winding-clothes
burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
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Winding-sheet Sentence Examples

  • She could not afford to recognize Mary's claim, for that would have been to alienate the Protestants, double the number of Catholics, and, in her own phrase, to spread a winding-sheet before her eyes; for all would have turned to the rising sun.

  • During the long absence of her husband after the fall of Troy many chieftains of Ithaca and the islands round about became her suitors; and, to rid herself of the importunities of the wooers, she bade them wait till she had woven a winding-sheet for old Laertes, the father of Odysseus.

  • He now stood for his statue to the sculptor, Nicholas Stone, standing before a fire in his study at the Deanery, with his winding-sheet wrapped and tied round him, his eyes shut, and his feet resting on a funeral urn.

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