Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Clothes in which to bury the dead.
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Examples
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The gude wives in Burntisland thought it respectable to provide dead-clothes for themselves and the "gude man," that they might have a decent funeral.
Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville Mary Somerville 1826
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The dead-clothes were there huddled together in a nook, but the dead was gone.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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The dead-clothes were there huddled together in a nook, but the dead was gone.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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