mortcloth

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A form of mort cloth — A pall for a coffin; a casket saddle

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Meanings

nounmortcloth (countable and uncountable, plural mortcloths)

plural mortcloths

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of mort cloth.

    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.

    1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VI, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book II (Nanci), page 98
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APA

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MLA

“mortcloth.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mortcloth. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mortcloth,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mortcloth.

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