winding-sheet
Corpse's final garment
A winding-sheet is a cloth used to wrap a corpse for burial—a shroud.
The term is old-fashioned and literary, evoking traditional burial practices before modern embalming: They wrapped the body in a winding-sheet.
The winding refers to the wrapping motion, not to anything serpentine.
Flax-derived textile
- clothWoven or knit material
- pallGrow tiresome or dull
- coveringLayer that shields or hides
- muslinPlain-woven cotton cloth
gauze · cambric · wrapping · swathe · envelope · drape · binding
Burial container for remains
- casketBurial container
- tombUnderground chamber for remains
- graveSerious and worrying
- sepulcherChamber for the dead
crypt · mausoleum · interment · entombment · cemetery · graveyard · funerary · mortician
Service honoring the dead
- wakePath left in water
- vigilPurposeful nighttime wakefulness
- requiemMass for the deceased
- eulogyTribute for the dead
dirge · rites · obsequies · procession · memorial · prayers · incense · candles
linen
Flax-derived textile
muslin · gauze · cambric · wrapping · swathe · envelope · drape · binding
coffin
Burial container for remains
sepulcher · crypt · mausoleum · interment · entombment · cemetery · graveyard · funerary · mortician · undertaker
funeral
Service honoring the dead
eulogy · dirge · rites · obsequies · procession · memorial · prayers · incense · candles · solemnity
corpse
Deceased human body
demise · mortality · deathbed · departed · passing · expiration · coroner · morgue · obituary · bereavement
specter
Ghostly threatening presence
- phantomInsubstantial apparition
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
- wraithSpectral apparition of someone
revenant · haunting · ethereal · spectral · eerie · supernatural · ghoul · banshee · undead
winding-sheetswaddling clothes
Cloth strips restraining newborns
christening gown · baptismal robe · baby blanket · layette · receiving blanket
wind, winding, winds, winder, unwinding, rewind, rewinding, sheet, sheets