cerecloth

American  

[seer-klawth, -kloth] / ˈsɪərˌklɔθ, -ˌklɒθ /

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.

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cerecloth British  

/ ˈsɪəˌklɒθ /

noun

1. waxed waterproof cloth of a kind formerly used as a shroud

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Etymology

Origin of cerecloth

1400–50; late Middle English; earlier cered cloth; see cere ²

Example Sentences

I cut out of this cerecloth a small square the size of the Bee's thorax; and I insert the magnetised point through a few threads of the material.

From The Mason-Bees by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

It were too gross To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.”—

From Adventures Among Books by Lang, Andrew

Baba Mustafa quickly made the cerecloth of fitting length and breadth, and Morgiana paid him the promised Ashrafi; then once more bandaging his eyes led him back to the place whence she had brought him.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

And his grave shall be 'Neath the chestnut tree, Where he met my sister many years ago; Leave that tress of hair On his bosom there— Wrap the cerecloth round him!

From Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon by Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop

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.

From Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages by Various

Related Words

• cloak
• pall
• veil