Definitions for cerecloth

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cerecloth cere·cloth

Spelling: [seer-klawth, -kloth]

IPA: /ˈsɪərˌklɔθ, -ˌklɒθ/

Cerecloth is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 288 anagrams from letters in cerecloth (cceehlort).

Definitions for cerecloth

noun

1. cloth coated or impregnated with wax so as to be waterproof, formerly used for wrapping the dead, for bandages, etc.
2. a piece of such cloth.

Origin of cerecloth

1400-50; late Middle English; earlier cered cloth; see cere²

Examples for cerecloth

Not a star sparkled in the sky, which was black as ink; nature seemed covered with a cerecloth; all presaged an approaching storm.

The best is a sort of cerecloth which he prepares specially with a very fine material.

So to bed, and there had a cerecloth laid to my foot and leg alone, but in great pain all night long.