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English
Noun
mortcloth (countable and uncountable, plural mortcloths)
- Alternative form of mort cloth
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: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.