MEANING
A cloth wrapped around a dead body for burial.
Use it for
Historical burial customs, intimate preparation of the dead.Replace a vague covering with an object unmistakably tied to burial.
Words that belong together
- linen winding-sheet
- white winding-sheet
- wrapped in a winding-sheet
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She folded the winding-sheet before the priest arrived.
A hand-shaped stain darkened the old winding-sheet.
The historian found a receipt for linen bought as a winding-sheet.
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Usage notes
Primary category: gothic. Old-fashioned or literary; a bodily wrapping rather than the cloth covering a coffin. Plural winding-sheets. Orthographic variant winding sheet.
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