cerecloth

Sharp are thine eyes to see a sword through all this wrappage of cerecloth; surely they be of the warrior kin.

From The Sundering Flood by May Morris

Many of the teeth remained, and the left ear, in consequence of the interposition of some unctuous matter between it and the cerecloth, was found entire.

From Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland by J.O. Choules

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 Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke

It were too gross To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.

From The Death-Wake or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras by Andrew Lang

Baba Mustafa quickly made the cerecloth of fitting length and breadth, and Morgiana paid him the promised Ashrafi; then once more bandaging his eyes led him back to the place whence she had brought him.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

When they took off my cerecloths and sent me back to Wellingsford, Betty was the first to smile her dear welcome.

From The Red Planet by William John Locke

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

From The Lady of the Shroud by Bram Stoker

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 Vernon Lee

Break thou the covering cerecloths; rise up from the dead.

From Songs Before Sunrise by Algernon Charles Swinburne

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 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle