cerecloth
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When, by farther removal of the cerecloth, they had disengaged the entire head, they found it to be loose from the body.
From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by David Masson
It were too gross To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.
From The Death-Wake or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras by Andrew Lang
I shut the drawer again hurriedly, and that doll in its silver paper cerecloth haunted me all night.
From Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse by Various
"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
Madam Gillin answered it in person, bedizened in a weird wrapper, a wisp of soiled crape wound over the curl-papers about her head and under her chin like a cerecloth.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
When they took off my cerecloths and sent me back to Wellingsford, Betty was the first to smile her dear welcome.
From The Red Planet by William John Locke
“Not if it were wrought of the cerecloths of the damned!”
From The Lady of the Shroud by Bram Stoker
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
And the faint ghosts in cerecloths, and the horrible shapes of the mist....
From The Wind Bloweth by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
Break thou the covering cerecloths; rise up from the dead.
From Songs Before Sunrise by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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