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Shroud

noun

A line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute.

(nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind. Synonyms: mainsheet, sheet, tack, weather sheet.

Burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped. Synonyms: cerement, pall, winding-clothes, winding-sheet.

verb

(past & past part. shrouded; pres. part. shrouding)

Cover as if with a shroud. Synonyms: cover, enshroud, hide.

Form a cover like a shroud.

Wrap in a shroud.

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"Shroud" Quotes from Famous Books

... some live remorseless frieze, The approaching days escapeless and unguessed, With mask and shroud impenetrably dressed; Time, whose inexorable destinies Bear down upon us like impending seas; And the huge presence of this world, at best A sightless giant wandering without rest, Aged ...

— Among the Millet and Other Poems • Archibald Lampman

... him to the heart. The snow had now begun to fall in large scattered flakes, whirling fitfully through the air, following every chance gust of wind, but still falling, falling, and covering the earth with its white, death-like shroud. ...

— Tales From Two Hemispheres • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

... the feel of this earth how it feels to lie looking up for ever at nothing? Is life anything but a nightmare, a dream; and is not this the reality? And why my fury, my insignificant flame, blowing here and there, when there is really no wind, only a shroud of still air, and these flowers of sunlight that have been dropped on me! Why not let my spirit sleep, instead of eating itself away with rage; why not resign myself at once to wait for the substance, of which this is but ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... in golden yellow licks upon his face. In her imagination she could again see the flake-like ashes, thrown out from the smoldering fire, rise grey to the ceiling, then descend silently over him like a pale shroud. ...

— Rose O'Paradise • Grace Miller White

... a shroud of unpolluted white, The frozen hills lie silent and asleep; And moveless spruce and ghostly birches keep Their silent vigils through the endless night. The frozen creeks, long voiceless, partly veiled 'Neath drifting snow, dream fondly of the trees; Within ...

— Out of the North • Howard V. Sutherland

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