Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- The clothes or dress in which a dead body is interred; cerements, in the wider sense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural The clothes or dress in which the dead are interred.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
clothes in which acorpse isburied .
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Examples
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But he comes, we find in the icon of the Nativity, peculiarly wrapped in what appears to be graveclothes, his cradle oddly resembling a coffin, the cave in which the baby lies not just a random hole in the earth, but made by his presence into the entrance to the very heart of the earth.
Eric Simpson: Why Christ's Resurrection Matters Eric Simpson 2011
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And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin.
FROM THE CROSS TO PENTECOST T. D. JAKES 2010
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We have kept on the graveclothes instead of putting on the garments of resurrection.
Running For Our Lives in Easter Joy Meg 2009
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And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin.
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And that was you dressing quickly at first light before the heat came whistling up the pipes—early mass among the Italians in their graveclothes.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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And that was you dressing quickly at first light before the heat came whistling up the pipes—early mass among the Italians in their graveclothes.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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And that was you dressing quickly at first light before the heat came whistling up the pipes—early mass among the Italians in their graveclothes.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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On Easter day, the church would be filled with flowers, and we would roll the stone away from the tomb, leaving a little pile of cotton graveclothes neatly folded inside the tomb and a notice.
A Good Friday Rachel 2007
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And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin.
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And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin.
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