Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bad spelling of
cerecloth .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To cover, as a sore, with cerecloth.
- noun Cerecloth.
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Examples
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"cerement," the cloth dipped "in melting wax, in which dead bodies were enfolded when embalmed" (_Hamlet_, act i.sc. 4), but the sense of the passage seems rather to point to "cerecloth," "searcloth," a plaster to cover up a wound.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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