white shroud
Death's pale wrap
A white shroud is a burial cloth, traditionally white linen or cotton, used to wrap a body for interment.
White symbolizes purity or passage to the afterlife in many cultures.
Figuratively, anything that covers completely like a burial cloth: A white shroud of snow blanketed the valley.
The image evokes death, stillness, and erasure.
- burialPlacing deceased underground
- deathCessation of life
- ghostApparition of the dead
- ghostly presenceSupernatural being sensed nearby
- funeralService honoring the dead
linen · pale · deathly pale · cloth · veil · covering · corpse · specter · wraithlike · gauze · mist · phantom · coffin · grave · laid to rest · final rest · ethereal · translucent
- Islamic funeralsburial, funeral prayer, ritual washing, grave, burial ground
- Jewish mourningshiva, shivah, yahrzeit, sitting shiva, mourning
- funeral clothwinding sheet, body wrap, funeral pall, pall, velvet lining
life vs. death associations
white shroudbaby blanket
Soft covering for infants
swaddling clothes · christening gown · wedding dress · birthday suit · baptismal robe
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