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grave-clothes, n. pl.
[f. grave n.1 + clothes.]
The clothes or wrappings in which a corpse is laid out for burial.
1535Coverdale John xi. 44 And ye deed came forth bounde hande and fote with graue clothes. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. xi. 20 Like a ghost he seem'd whose grave-clothes were unbound. 1633G. Herbert Temple, Dawning 15 Christ left his grave-clothes. 1679J. Goodman Penit. Pardoned iii. ii. (1713) 287 Without so much as his grave-clothes about him. 1820Shelley Vision Sea 57 The sharks and the dog-fish their grave-clothes unbound. 1857Keble Eucharist. Adorat. 17 Angels..employed chiefly, as far as we are told, in guarding His tomb and grave-clothes. |