cerecloth.

Cloth treated with wax, formerly used to wrap a dead body.

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Words that belong together

• waxed cerecloth
• wrapped in cerecloth

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Cerecloth clung to the outline of the hands beneath the shroud.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror / gothic. Forms: Usually uncountable as material; countable singular cerecloth, plural cerecloths for a particular wrapping. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: rare.