death-sark

C2+ Topic:Culture & History
US /ˈdɛθˌsɑːrk/ UK /ˈdɛθˌsɑːk/
noun

Meanings

  1. 1
    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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Synonyms
1 noun · a shirt or garment put on a... shroudwinding sheetgraveclothesburial shirt
Word family
Forms death-sarks
Related forms sarkburialfuneral

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.

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