Definition of "sudarium" []

• The handkerchief upon which the Savior is said to have impressed his own portrait miraculously, when wiping his face with it, as he passed to the crucifixion. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "As the word sudarium suggested, it was painted to represent the impression made by the sweat of Christ, i.e. probably in a yellowish tint upon unbrilliant red."
• "The same is worshipped under the name of St. Suaire, from the Latin word sudarium."
• "We also read that the cloth (in Latin, a "sudarium") that covered our Lord's head was rolled up in a separate place."