mortcloth
See also: mort cloth
English
Noun
mortcloth (countable and uncountable, plural mortcloths)
- Alternative form of mort cloth
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, OCLC 1026761782, (please specify the book or page number):
- A solemn National funeral-service […] the vast Champ-de-Mars wholly hung round with black mortcloth, — which mortcloth and expenditure Marat thinks had better have been laid out in bread, in these dear days, and given to the hungry living Patriot.
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