SHROUD

Added by Elif Varlik

Definition

Noun

A cloth or long, loose piece of clothing that is used to wrap a dead body before it is buried (Cambridge)

a length of cloth or an enveloping garment in which a dead person is wrapped for burial (Google)

Pronunciation

• shrowd

• IPA transcription: /ʃraʊd/

Sample sentences

Noun

• Annabeth’s shroud was so beautiful—gray silk with embroidered owls—I told her it seemed a shame not to bury her in it. She punched me and told me to shut up. Being the son of Poseidon, I didn’t have any cabin mates, so the Ares cabin had volunteered to make my shroud. (Percy Jackson, Chapter 22)

• He cleared the leafy shroud covering the sign. (Cambridge)

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Etymology

Old English scrud "a garment, article of clothing, dress, something which envelops and conceals," from West Germanic *skruthan, from Proto-Germanic *skrud- "cut" (source also of Old Norse skruð "shrouds of a ship, tackle, gear; furniture of a church," Danish, Swedish skrud "dress, attire"), from PIE *skreu- "to cut" (see shred (n.)).

The specific meaning "winding-sheet for a dead body, cloth or sheet for burial," to which the word now is restricted, is attested from 1560s. The sense of "strong rope supporting the mast of a ship" (mid-15c.) is from the notion of "clothing" a spar or mast; one without rigging was said to be naked.

Translation

Chinese: 裹尸布

Korean: 측판

Kazakh: жамылғы

Russian: саван

French: envelopper

Spanish: sudario

German: Leichentuch

Turkish: kefen