Cloth in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
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Examples for "shroud"
Examples for "shroud"
1I'm not sure who said 'there are no pockets in a shroud'.
2When the bands of the shroud have been loosened the people say:-
3The sky was wrapped in its evening shroud of deep, mysterious darkness.
4The shroud application represents one of the first, practical uses for FALCON.
5My iron shroud contracted round me; persuasion advanced with slow sure step.
1The body has been undressed and properly laid out in grave clothes.
2No bones, no mummified flesh, no shrivelled grave clothes, and definitely no Joe.
3What of the folded grave clothes, and the Forty Days?
4And the mildewed grave clothes are so offensively odorous.
5He immediately returned the men to Egypt, each provided with his grave clothes, and wrote: To Pharaoh!
1I took dark winding-cloths and bound them about my head, covering the hair and forehead, all the while watching the effect produced in the mirror.
1I strewed my soul in supplication, and there was talk of winding-sheets.
2I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets.
3Many, too, began to move and throw off their winding-sheets.
4See, the pale winding-sheets gleaming in the wax-candles!
5Far off, wool-white winding-sheets of mist were lifting, lagging along the purple hills, clothed with inviolate forest.
Translations for mound shroud