英语词汇“cerecloth”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

cerecloth

/ˈsɪəklɒθ

noun [mass noun] historical

Waxed cloth used for wrapping a corpse.Twere damnation To think so base a thought; it were too gross To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave....

The next day the miraculous body was shewn to the multitude, though it is honestly stated by the chronicler that the whole of it, including the face, was covered with linen, the only flesh visible being through a chink left in the cerecloths at the neck.
The specimen I enclose, wrapped in a golden cerecloth, and with the remains of his last dinner in the proper region, will prove to you the heights to which the creative power of the true artist may soar.

Late Middle English: from earlier cered cloth, from cere 'to wax', from Latin cerare, from cera 'wax'.

单词	cerecloth
释义	cerecloth /ˈsɪəklɒθ / noun [mass noun] historical Waxed cloth used for wrapping a corpse.Twere damnation To think so base a thought; it were too gross To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.... The next day the miraculous body was shewn to the multitude, though it is honestly stated by the chronicler that the whole of it, including the face, was covered with linen, the only flesh visible being through a chink left in the cerecloths at the neck. The specimen I enclose, wrapped in a golden cerecloth, and with the remains of his last dinner in the proper region, will prove to you the heights to which the creative power of the true artist may soar. Origin Late Middle English: from earlier cered cloth, from cere 'to wax', from Latin cerare, from cera 'wax'.
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