cerecloth

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 Sir Richard Francis Burton

"The crown he gave," and now, alas! has he Who was the heir to England's sovereignty No diadem except the cerecloth band, No sceptre but the taper in his hand!

From John Patrick, Third Marquess of Bute, K.T. A Memoir by David Hunter Blair

Sharp are thine eyes to see a sword through all this wrappage of cerecloth; surely they be of the warrior kin.

From The Sundering Flood by May Morris

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

From Adventures Among Books by Andrew Lang

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."

From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle

By it he placed his lamp, and then squatting down beside it in Eastern fashion he began with long quivering fingers to undo the cerecloths and bandages which girt it round.

From The Captain of the Polestar by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

And the faint ghosts in cerecloths, and the horrible shapes of the mist....

From The Wind Bloweth by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne

I have not robbed the dead of their loaves and cerecloths.

From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

The sepulchre is open, guards asleep or stretching themselves, and yawning all round; and childish young angels look reverently into the empty grave, rearranging the cerecloths, and trying to roll back the stone lid.

From Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion by Vernon Lee

Break thou the covering cerecloths; rise up from the dead.

From Songs Before Sunrise by Algernon Charles Swinburne