cerecloth

He speaks the words to Burbage, the young player who stands before him beyond the rack of cerecloth, calling him by a name: Hamlet, I am thy father's spirit, bidding him list.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

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.

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 Phillpotts, Eden

His sister brought the cerecloth that she took in the Waste Chapel, and presented there where the Graal was.

From The High History of the Holy Graal by Evans, Sebastian

The mode spreads—then rushes into rage: to breathe is to be obsolete: to wear the shroud becomes comme il faut, this cerecloth acquiring all the attractiveness and éclat of a wedding-garment.

From Prince Zaleski by Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)

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 Lee, Vernon

And the faint ghosts in cerecloths, and the horrible shapes of the mist....

From The Wind Bloweth by Donn-Byrne, Brian Oswald

“Not if it were wrought of the cerecloths of the damned!”

From The Lady of the Shroud by Stoker, Bram

I have not robbed the dead of their loaves and cerecloths.

From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

By it he placed his lamp, and then squatting down beside it in Eastern fashion he began with long quivering fingers to undo the cerecloths and bandages which girt it round.

From The Captain of the Polestar by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir