Meanings
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noun
a shirt or garment put on a dead body for burial; a shroud
The mourners wrapped the body in a plain linen death-sark.
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Etymology
A Scots and northern English compound of death + sark, shirt or body garment. Sark descends from Middle English and Old English serc and is cognate with Old Norse serkr, shirt. The compound is also recorded as dead sark and deid sark.