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Meanings of shroud in English
Cloth in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
Synonyms
Examples for "pall"
Examples for "pall"
1
A pall of corruption hangs over several countries, seemingly impossible to diminish.
2
A pall of dense cloud, many miles in thickness, enfolds the earth.
3
There was a coffin in the boat, covered with a simple pall.
4
The pall-bearers having deposited their charge in front of the pulpit, Rev.
5
The silence in the room was deathly, the heat intense, heavy, pall-like.
1
A gauzy veil of white covered her head, like a cerement of the grave.
2
They fold away from off her like the cerements of death.
3
The moonlight, falling through the thinning forest, showed her white cerements.
4
Sears and John, in those cerements of the grave, with those lifeless faces.
5
There are the remains of a very impressive figure, apparently rising from her cerements.
1
His head was shaved, and his body wrapped in a dark winding-sheet.
2
The mist wrapped them like a winding-sheet, and froze as it fell.
3
The Abbey of Saint Cornille sheltered, perhaps, the holy winding-sheet of Christ.
4
He was as a mystery in a winding-sheet, crowned with a halo.
5
I should stand waiting to see you come out in a winding-sheet.
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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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
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