grave-clothesn.
With plural agreement. The clothes or wrappings in which a corpse is laid out for burial.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > [noun] > laying or wrapping in shroud > grave-clothes
grave-clothes1535
burial-clothes1570
linena1616
dead-dress1854
dead-clothes1861
1535 Bible (Coverdale) John xi. 44 And ye deed came forth bounde hande and fote with graue clothes.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xi. sig. Z2 Like a ghost he seem'd, whose graue-clothes were vnbound.
1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 15 Christ left his grave-clothes.
1679 J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned (1713) iii. ii. 287 Without so much as his grave-clothes about him.
1820 P. B. Shelley Vision of Sea in Prometheus Unbound 176 The sharks and the dog-fish their grave-clothes un-bound.
1857 J. Keble On Eucharistical Adoration 17 Angels..employed chiefly, as far as we are told, in guarding His tomb and grave-clothes.
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