mort cloth
Noun
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Noun
mort cloth
- (UK, obsolete) The pall spread over a coffin; black cloth indicative of mourning; funeral hangings.
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
- A solemn National funeral-service […] the vast Champ-de-Mars wholly hung round with black mortcloth, — which mortcloth and expenditure Jean-Paul Marat thinks had better have been laid out in bread, in these dear days, and given to the hungry living Patriot.
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
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