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Definition of Cerecloths
1. cerecloth [n] - See also: cerecloth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cerecloths
Literary usage of Cerecloths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1846)
"Who can but love that Church which first planted, ments covered the cerecloths,
and the ghastly features were mocked by the queenly crown; ..."
2. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest by Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland (1868)
"Mr. Lucas had the curiosity to rip up the top of the coffin, and found the whole
body, wrapped in six or seven linen cerecloths, entire and uncorrupted, ..."
3. The American Bibliopolist (1876)
"Mr. Lucas had the curiosity to rip up the top of the coffin and found the whole
body, wrapped in six or seven linen cerecloths, entire and uncorrupt- ed, ..."
4. Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine by Douglas William Jerrold (1847)
"Burst thy cerecloths, Maid of Egypt! Arise from thy narrow place in the sterile
valley of the tombs, and come forth before our Nay, start not! ..."
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