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SHROUD (O. Eng. scrud, garment; cf. Icel. skrudh, in the secondary sense of rigging, allied with " shred," O. Eng. screade, a piece, strip)

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 1023 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SHA-SIV
SHROUD (O. Eng. scrud, garment; cf. Icel. skrudh, in the secondary sense of rigging, allied with " shred," O. Eng. screade, a piece, strip) , originally a word meaning garment, clothing or covering, but now particularly applied to the garment in which a dead
body
  is wrapped preparatory to burial, a winding
sheet
 . The
shroud
  is usually a
long
 
linen
 
sheet
  wrapping the entire
body
 . This was formerly dipped in melted wax (Lat. cera), whence the name " cerecloth," often wrongly written cerecloth or searcloth and " cerements." In nautical usage the Icelandic meaning of skrudh, tackle,
rigging
  of a ship, has been adopted in
English
 ; the " shrouds " of a ship are the set of
ropes
  which stretch from the heads of a ship's masts to the sides as supports (see RIGGING).


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