Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Cloth coated with wax, formerly used for wrapping the dead.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A linen or other cloth saturated or coated with wax in such a way as to be proof against moisture, used as an under-cover for an altar, as a wrapping or bandage in medical treatment, etc., and especially (in this case also called
cerement ) as a wrapper for a corpse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A cloth smeared with melted wax, or with some gummy or glutinous matter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Cloth coated with wax used for covering the dead.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a waterproof waxed cloth once used as a shroud
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Examples
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He speaks the words to Burbage, the young player who stands before him beyond the rack of cerecloth, calling him by a name:
Ulysses 2003
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No one would hide anything of value there, no matter how many folds of cerecloth were wrapped round it for protection.
The Heretic's Apprentice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1989
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No one would hide anything of value there, no matter how many folds of cerecloth were wrapped round it for protection.
The Heretic's Apprentice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1989
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But he did not provide rugs and pillows and cerecloth for the souls he ferried across to eternity.
An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985
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But he did not provide rugs and pillows and cerecloth for the souls he ferried across to eternity.
An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985
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Huon de Domville lay naked beneath a linen cerecloth in the mortuary chapel, and round about him stood the abbot and prior, the sheriff of the county, the dead man's nephew and squire, Sir Godfrid Picard, who should by this time have been his uncle by marriage, and Brother Cadfael.
The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981
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Baba Mustafa quickly made the cerecloth of fitting length and breadth, and Morgiana paid him the promised ashrafi, then, once more bandaging his eyes, led him back to the place whence she had brought him.
Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981
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Chapter Six Huon de Domville lay naked beneath a linen cerecloth in the mortuary chapel, and round about him stood the abbot and prior, the sheriff of the county, the dead man's nephew and squire, Sir Godfrid Picard, who should by this time have been his uncle by marriage, and Brother Cadfael.
The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981
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Wherever the unctuous matter had insinuated itself, the separation of the cerecloth was easy; and when it came off, a correct impression of the features to which it had been applied was observed in the unctuous substance.
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These were an internal wooden coffin, very much decayed, and the body carefully wrapped up in cerecloth, into the folds of which a quantity of unctuous or greasy matter, mixed with resin, as it seemed, had been melted, so as to exclude, as effectually as possible, the external air.
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