shroud
noun/ʃraʊd/
/ʃraʊd/
- a piece of cloth that a dead person’s body is wrapped in before it is buried
- a burial shroud
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- burial
- funeral
- mourning
- …
- wrap somebody in
- in a/the shroud
- shroud of
- shroud of something (literary) a thing that covers, surrounds or hides something
- The organization is cloaked in a shroud of secrecy.
- a shroud of smoke
- a shroud of darkness/mist
Word Originlate Old English scrūd ‘garment, clothing’, of Germanic origin, from a base meaning ‘cut’; related to shred. An early sense of the verb (Middle English) was ‘cover so as to protect’.
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