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Shroud

  1. Burial cloth: a cloth in which a dead body is wrapped before burial
  2. Covering: something that covers or conceals something or somebody
  3. Protective covering: a protective covering
  • [Old English scrd "garment." Ultimately, from a prehistoric West Germanic word meaning "to cut," which is also the ancestor of English shred.]

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the Shroud of Turin

See also the site of 'the Council for Study of the Shroud of Turin' for much more information and photos.

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