Definitions
A cloth covering, especially one used for burial.
Word origin
From Middle English shroud, from Old English sċrūd, from Proto-Germanic *skrūdą. Cognate with Old Norse skrúð (“the shrouds of a ship”) ( > Danish, Norwegian skrud (“splendid attire”)).
Used in a sentence
“swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds”
“Every time we came a research area, we had to pause while the scientists threw grey shrouds over prototypes that I wasn’t to see.”
“O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, From off the battlements of any tower, […] Or bid me go into a new-made grave And hide me with a dead man in his shroud […]”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Burial cloth”6 letters
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