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grave clothes

plural noun

  1. the wrappings in which a dead body is interred


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What I had taken for grave-clothes was a covering formed from the growth of their bleached and tangled locks.

She felt as if she were laying out her own grave-clothes, and that she would need little and not need that little long.

The colours most approved for the grave-clothes are white and green.

Nancy looked into the stream, and saw that the rider was in a shroud and other grave-clothes.

The dead man comes forth, is released from grave-clothes, and restored to his home.

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