cerecloth

It dropped the cerecloth from its fleshless face And smiled on me, with a remembered grace That, like the noontide, lit the gloaming's gloom.

From Poems of Passion by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Within this was a wooden coffin, much decayed, and the body carefully wrapped in cerecloth, into the folds of which an unctuous matter mixed with resin had been melted, to exclude the external air.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 558, July 21, 1832 by Various

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 Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

The coffin was completely full, and, from-the tenacity of the cerecloth, great difficulty was experienced in detaching it successfully from the parts which it developed.

From Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland by J.O. Choules

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

From Adventures Among Books by Andrew Lang

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

“Not if it were wrought of the cerecloths of the damned!”

From The Lady of the Shroud by Bram Stoker

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

From Songs Before Sunrise by Algernon Charles Swinburne