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cerecloth

[ seer-klawth, -kloth ]

noun

plural cerecloths
  1. cloth coated or impregnated with wax so as to be waterproof, formerly used for wrapping the dead, for bandages, etc.
  2. a piece of such cloth.


cerecloth

/ ˈ²õɪəˌ°ì±ôɒθ /

noun

  1. waxed waterproof cloth of a kind formerly used as a shroud
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of cerecloth1

1400–50; late Middle English; earlier cered cloth; cere 2
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of cerecloth1

C15: from earlier cered cloth, from Latin ³¦Å§°ùÄå°ù±ð to wax; see cere ²
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The skeleton was found still wrapped in a cerecloth, and in the record of the church is a memorandum of payment "for a terpauling to wrap Mr. Mitchell."

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Madam Gillin answered it in person, bedizened in a weird wrapper, a wisp of soiled crape wound over the curl-papers about her head and under her chin like a cerecloth.

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I shut the drawer again hurriedly, and that doll in its silver paper cerecloth haunted me all night.

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The curse of witchcraft was upon the house, hatred and death clung around it like cerecloths to a coffin.

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A year again, and on Inchkeith Isle I saw thee pass in the breeze, With the cerecloth risen above thy feet And wound about thy knees.

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