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Meanings of shroud in English
Cloth in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
Synonyms
Examples for "mound shroud"
Examples for "mound shroud"
1
The body has been undressed and properly laid out in grave clothes.
2
No bones, no mummified flesh, no shrivelled grave clothes, and definitely no Joe.
3
What of the folded grave clothes, and the Forty Days?
4
And the mildewed grave clothes are so offensively odorous.
5
He immediately returned the men to Egypt, each provided with his grave clothes, and wrote: To Pharaoh!
1
I 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.
1
I strewed my soul in supplication, and there was talk of winding-sheets.
2
I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets.
3
Many, too, began to move and throw off their winding-sheets.
4
See, the pale winding-sheets gleaming in the wax-candles!
5
Far off, wool-white winding-sheets of mist were lifting, lagging along the purple hills, clothed with inviolate forest.
Usage of shroud in English
1
I'm not sure who said 'there are no pockets in a shroud'.
2
When the bands of the shroud have been loosened the people say:-
3
The sky was wrapped in its evening shroud of deep, mysterious darkness.
4
The shroud application represents one of the first, practical uses for FALCON.
5
My iron shroud contracted round me; persuasion advanced with slow sure step.
6
She carried Wistan, wrapped in a shroud of blankets, in her arms.
7
His blunt words settle like a shroud over the rest of us.
8
Who was it under the vaults, in the shroud, between the planks?
9
It was the skeleton of his wife in her yet unmoulded shroud.
10
He was surprised to find drops of moisture falling on the shroud.
11
By degrees, a buried dread in his brain threw off its shroud.
12
Bead-work, the most ornate, expensive blankets and ribbons comprise the funeral shroud.
13
Who is that in his shroud beneath the tree by the stream?
14
England is in her shroud,-wemay not enchain ourselves to a corpse.
15
In the flickering light, she looked as if she wore a shroud.
16
And the Turin shroud was a single garment for the whole body.
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Shroud across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common