mort-cloth

The letter of the wedding night is explained now, and that changing, as they both did, to the hue of a mort-cloth at sight of each other.

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

I changed the conversation, thinking that perhaps the child's case was too delicate a subject, but unhappily made the plundering of our glens my dolorous text, and gloom fell like a mort-cloth on our little company.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

The pall, or bier-cloth, or mort-cloth, as it was called, was usually bought and owned by the town, and was of heavy purple, or black broadcloth, or velvet.

Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

Earth, or ignoble, as of death to Heaven, the [Greek: diadêma] is fastened with the mort-cloth: "Bound hand and foot with grave-clothes, and the face bound about with the napkin."

Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving John Ruskin 1859

The order of the funeral now was as follows: -- Foremost the women -- next to them the corpse, surrounded by the relations -- the eldest son, in deep affliction, "led the coffin," as chief mourner, holding in his hand the corner of a sheet or piece of linen, fastened to the mort-cloth, called moor-cloth.

The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

The body was covered with a mort-cloth, so that he could not ascertain whether it was that of a man or a woman.

The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

On reaching the northern nook of the kirk-yard, where the grave was made, the mourners halted; the coffin was divested of the mort-cloth, and silently lowered to its resting-place, and as the first shovel-full of earth fell on the lid, the volunteers, too agitated to be steady, justified the fears of the poet, by three ragged volleys.

The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Robert Burns 1777

Body of our regal selves! it is a corpse that has run off with the mort-cloth!”

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

Body of our regal selves! it is a corpse that has run off with the mort-cloth! "

The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801