Definition of "graveclothes" [grave•clothes]

• The clothes in which a corpse is buried. (noun)

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• "But he comes, we find in the icon of the Nativity, peculiarly wrapped in what appears to be graveclothes, his cradle oddly resembling a coffin, the cave in which the baby lies not just a random hole in the earth, but made by his presence into the entrance to the very heart of the earth."
• "And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin."
• "We have kept on the graveclothes instead of putting on the garments of resurrection."