church clothn.
/ˈtʃəːtʃ klɒθ/, U.S. /ˈtʃərtʃ ˌklɔθ/, /ˈtʃərtʃ ˌklɑθ/ Any piece of cloth used in a church or a church service, such as an altar cloth, purificator, corporal, etc.; (as a mass noun) fabric used for such items.In quot. 1639: spec. a shroud provided by the parish for a pauper.
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church cloth1639
the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > [noun] > laying or wrapping in shroud > shroud
sheetc1000
sendala1300
sudaryc1380
winding-clotha1400
winding-sheetc1420
kellc1425
sindonc1500
shroud1570
shrouding sheet1576
cerement1604
church cloth1639
socking-sheet1691
death cloth1699
sow1763
windinga1825
burial-cloth1876
negligée1927
the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > [noun] > laying or wrapping in shroud > shroud > type of
church cloth1639
flannel1683
kittel1852
1639 J. Shirley Ball ii. sig. C Thou maist be buried, And ha the Church-cloth, if you can put in Securitie, the Parish shall be put To no more charge.
1658 T. Bromhall Hist. Apparitions Table Satan's Impostures sig. Rrr2 Church-cloathes plundered, when they came to be used by prophane hands, appear bloody.
1869 C. C. Shackford tr. B. Auerbach Villa Eden ii. xiii. 185/2 This man's father is a famous embroiderer of church-cloths, and his brother an illustrious painter of saints.
1901 J. Curtin tr. E. Orzeszkowa Argonauts ix. 246 One man even opened a chapel in which I found church-cloths of incomparable antiquity.
1949 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 263 40/2 The production of church cloth, plate, candles, and other materials needed for the proper conduct of religious services.
2005 Sunday Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 17 July 2 Other gifts include..white church attire, a blue church cloth and a Nazareth Bible from a delegation from the Nazareth Church.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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