grave clothes

plural noun

1. the wrappings in which a dead body is interred

Example Sentences

The remedies that she gravitates toward—death salons; natural burials; personalized funerary options, such as bespoke grave clothes and a service that incorporates corpses into coral reefs—are, in essence, efforts to tether the idea of death to the particularities of the corpse, and to tether the reality of the corpse to the experience of living in a body.

From The New Yorker

The remedies that she gravitates toward—death salons; natural burials; personalized funerary options, such as bespoke grave clothes and a service that incorporates corpses into coral reefs—are, in essence, efforts to tether the idea of death to the particularities of the corpse, and to tether the reality of the corpse to the experience of living in a body.

From The New Yorker

“On Easter morning the gospel accounts of the resurrection would be re-enacted with ‘disciples’ acting out a presentation in which they would enter a makeshift tomb and bring out the grave clothes to show that Christ had indeed risen,” he said.

From The Guardian

He remembered wondering what it would have been like to witness Jesus roll the stone away from Lazarus’s tomb and watch the dead man walk out, still wearing his grave clothes.

From Literature

A tremor roused me and I slowly unwound my grave clothes, noticing how beautiful they were.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• cloak
• pall
• veil