cerecloth

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A year again, and on Inchkeith Isle I saw thee pass in the breeze, With the cerecloth risen above thy feet And wound about thy knees.

From Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages by Various

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)

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 Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop

It dropped the cerecloth from its fleshless face And smiled on me, with a remembered grace That, like the noontide, lit the gloaming's gloom.

From Poems of Passion by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

There was an odour of cerecloth in the tapestry, the yellow hue of immortelles in the �pergnes, a sediment of bitterness in the wine-cup, a strain of melancholy in the music.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by O'Shea, John Augustus