cerecloth

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 Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke

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

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

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

He was dead; and she saw him lying straight and cold in a padded coffin, with his hands crossed and cerecloth stiffly tying up his jaws.

From Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts

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

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

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