winding sheet

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

(especially in the past) a piece of fabric that a dead person's body was wrapped in before it was buried

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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winding sheet