burial shroud
collocation in Englishmeaningsofburialandshroud
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burial
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈber.i.əl/us/ˈber.i.əl/
the act of putting a dead body into the ground, or the ceremony connected ...
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shroud
noun[C]
uk/ʃraʊd/us/ʃraʊd/
a cloth or long, loose piece of clothing that is used to wrap a dead body before it ...
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(Definition ofburialandshroudfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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He or she is then dressed in a clean, perfumed, plain whiteburialshroud, called kafan.
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The "kittel", or "sargenes", is used as aburialshroud, providing simple dress that assures equality for all in death.
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Originally it was a large white rectangular garment with tzitzyot in each corner and was used as a garment, bed sheet, andburialshroud.
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Her father, preparing for the worst, wrapped her in a whiteburialshroud, and began to dig a grave.
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Her body was described as being found with the knees tucked up under the body, and herburialshroudtorn into shreds.
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Many women also put on a kittle (aburialshroud) half-way through the ceremony to symbolize acceptance of their own inevitable death.
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It happens that if they are seen washing aburialshroudand if there is blood on it, the upcoming death is going to be violent.
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They may choose to be buried in an all natural bio-degradable greenburialshroud, sometimes a simple coffin made of cardboard or other easily biodegradable material.
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That is, the posterior corridor of the model was stashed with wooden figures representing deceased individuals wrapped in burial shrouds of spun cotton (figure 5).
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Siegebert stood up in hisburialshroud.
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Cotton and agave fibers and at least two other tentatively identified fiber types are associated with the interments and represent clothing, burial shrouds, and personal accoutrements.
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