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winding sheet
noun
- a mass of tallow or wax that has run down and hardened on the side of a candle, sometimes considered an omen of misfortune.
winding sheet
noun
- a sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial; shroud
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Word History and Origins
Origin of winding sheet1
late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425
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Example Sentences
If you use it wisely, it may be Ulysses' hauberk; if you reject it, the shirt of Nessus were a cooler winding-sheet!
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Long trails of a pale tint simulated upon the water the folds of a winding-sheet.
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I began to know Rome better, and cast aside the winding-sheet which had enwrapped me, as it were.
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He is a fearful-looking deity, cadaverous as a skeleton, and wrapped in a winding sheet.
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She sickened, and before many suns went down she lay in her winding sheet.
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