sudarium

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  1. A handkerchief. The most intrepid veteran of us all dares no more than wipe his face with his cambric sudarium. Sydney Smith, in Lady Holland, iii.
  2. Specifically— The legendary sweat-cloth; the handkerchief of St. Veronica, according to tradition miraculously impressed with the mask of Christ; also, the napkin about Christ's head (Johu xx. 7).
  3. In general, any miraculous portrait of Christ. See vernicle.

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