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Meanings of mort-cloth in inglés
español
paño de tumba 
Cloth which covers a casket or coffin during the funeral, often of rich materials.
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 white border to a black sea-his funeral pall and its edging.
2
The bier of Brutus is Rome's funeral pall; He Minos seeks.
3
The following gentlemen held the cords of the funeral pall:-
4
A funeral pall was spread over Paris, once so gay.
5
Woe o'er the land hung like a funeral pall:
1
The body was laid in a coffin covered with black velvet.
2
New-born babes are buried in tiny coffins covered with pink or blue cambric.
3
You think of the memory from the church, the coffin covered in white cloth.
4
Six men bore a coffin covered with white flowers.
5
The next day he had the coffin covered in canvas and lashed to the seat.
Usage of mort-cloth in inglés
1
A prickle's at my skin that tells me here is dool, and I can smell mort-cloth.
2
"I felt as though I were buried alive-shroudedin white, coffined in mort-cloths!"
Frequent collocations
Mort-cloth through the time