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countable and uncountable, plural cerecloths
(historical) Cloth coated with wax so that it is waterproof, used for covering the dead. quotations
’Twere damnationTo think so base a thought; it were too grossTo rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.
c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene vii]