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searcloth

searcloth is the obsolete form of cerecloth.

Meaning of cerecloth

Noun

cerecloth (countable and uncountable, plural cerecloths)

  1. (historical) Cloth coated with wax so that it is waterproof, used for covering the dead.
    • ’Twere damnation
      To think so base a thought; it were too gross
      To 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]...

Forms of searcloth

pluralsearcloths

Questions about searcloth

What is searcloth the obsolete form of?
Searcloth is the obsolete form of cerecloth.

Words near searcloth in the dictionary

  1. searchroom
  2. searchrooms
  3. searcht
  4. searchy
  5. searcing
  6. searcloth
  7. searcloths
  8. Searcy
  9. Searcy County
  10. Searcys
  11. seared

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Adapted from Wiktionary: searcloth (page history and authors); cerecloth (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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