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🕊️ A burial cloth 🧣 A holy cloth ✝️ A church cloth
sudarium

sudarium

9.9
A cloth people put over a dead person's face at a burial
  • noun
  • /suˈdɛr.i.əm/
  • Archaic
translation icon : sudario
  • The priest placed a sudarium over the deceased's face as part of the burial ritual.

Examples

  • A white sudarium was carefully folded and laid on the body before the family arrived.

  • Historians studied the ancient sudarium found in the tomb to learn about burial customs.

  • The priest placed a sudarium over the deceased's face.

  • During the ceremony, a sudarium was draped over the coffin.

  • The priest placed a sudarium over the deceased's face as part of the burial ritual.

  • A white sudarium was carefully folded and laid on the body before the family arrived.

  • During the ceremony, a sudarium was draped over the coffin to honor the departed.

Synonyms

shroud
vssudarium
22 7.2

A cloth used to wrap a dead body before burial

is used only on the face instead of wrapping the whole body
burial garment
vssudarium
7.9

A cloth used to wrap a dead person for burial

is placed only over the face rather than the whole body

Surface Forms

sudarium singular
sudaria plural

Etymology

Sudarium comes from the Latin sudor, which means 'sweat', and it first meant a cloth for wiping a sweaty face; because such a face-cloth was later used to cover the faces of the dead, sudarium can mean a burial face cloth today.