mortcloth

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English

Noun

mortcloth (countable and uncountable, plural mortcloths)

  1. Alternative form of mort cloth
    • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History , volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
      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.