What does mortcloth mean?

mortcloth

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"A solemn National funeral-service […] the vast Champ-de-Mars wholly hung round with black mortcloth,—which mortcloth and expenditure Marat thinks had better have been laid out in bread, in these dear days, and given to the hungry living Patriot."

mortcloths (plural)

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