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graveclothes

[ greyv-klohz, -klohthz ]

plural noun

  1. the clothes clothes or wrappings in which a body is buried; cerements.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of graveclothes1

First recorded in 1525–35; grave 1 + clothes

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Example Sentences

Art has no business with real graveclothes when she wants tragic drapery—has she?

Folding the graveclothes decently over the body, Luke prepared to depart.

Then she turned and passed away into the shadow of the trees; I heard her graveclothes sweep upon the grass.

And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin.

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