cerecloth

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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 Wingfield, Lewis

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 Choules, J.O.

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

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 sensation stirred by that faintest of odors had been agreeable; there was nothing suggestive of grave-mold or cerecloth about it.

From The Siege of the Seven Suitors by Nicholson, Meredith