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Cerecloth

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Cloth coated with wax so that it is waterproof, used for covering the dead. countable, historical, uncountable

    "’Twere damnation To think so base a thought; it were too gross To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave."

  2. 2
    a waterproof waxed cloth once used as a shroud wordnet

Etymology

From cere + cloth, from Latin cera (“wax, cere”).

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