shrouds
Envelops in mystery
Shrouds are cloths used to wrap a dead body for burial.
By extension, anything that covers or conceals can be a shroud: a shroud of mist, shrouded in secrecy.
In sailing, shrouds are ropes or cables supporting a mast—a different word that settled on the same spelling.
To shroud is to cover or hide: Fog shrouded the harbor.
Service honoring the dead
- casketBurial container
- coffinBurial container for remains
- graveSerious and worrying
- intermentPutting a body underground
pallbearers · hearse · burial · winding sheet · pall · linen · wrapping · embalming
funeral
Service honoring the dead
interment · pallbearers · hearse · burial · winding sheet · pall · linen · wrapping · embalming · mortuary
veil
Fabric that obscures
obscure · hide · envelop · blanket · curtain · screen · pall · fog · mist · darkness
ratlines
Rope ladder rungs aboard
- mastVessel's sail support
- standing riggingFixed cables supporting masts
- ropeThick twisted fibers
cordage · sailing · ship · vessel · climbing · mainmast · foremast · deadeyes · lanyards · channels
linen
Flax-derived textile
white · winding · drape · covering · gossamer · sheer · translucent · fine · delicate · ethereal
- funeralsfuneral, burial, cremation, casket, coffin
- burial customsburial, burial rites, burials, burial customs, tombs
- death loredeath rituals, burial rites, burial customs, wakes, death knells
- ship partshull, keel, deck, mast, bow
- tomb artifactscanopic jars, burial goods, sarcophagi, coffins, mummy wrappings
- Jewish mourningshiva, shivah, yahrzeit, sitting shiva, mourning
- burial shroud
- holy shroudConsecrated burial wrapping
- death shroud
- funeral shroudBurial cloth for bodies
- white shroudPale burial garment
- Shroud of TurinContested burial fabric relic
shroud, shrouded, enshroud, shrouding, enshrouded, unshrouded, unshrouding, enshrouding, enshrouds