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hearsecloths

hearsecloths is the plural of hearsecloth.

Meaning of hearsecloth

Noun

hearsecloth (plural hearsecloths)

  1. A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall.
    • His body was stripped, laid out upon a table, and covered with a hearsecloth, when some of his attendants perceived symptoms of returning animation, and by the use of warm applications, internal and external, gradually restored him to life.1857, John Eadie, John Francis Waller, William John Macquorn Rankine, The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography

Questions about hearsecloths

What is hearsecloths the plural of?
Hearsecloths is the plural of hearsecloth.

Words near hearsecloths in the dictionary

  1. hearsals
  2. hearsay
  3. hearsays
  4. hearse
  5. hearsecloth
  6. hearsecloths
  7. hearsed
  8. hearseless
  9. hearselike
  10. hearses
  11. hearsing

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