Definition of Shroud

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Shroud

That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.

Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.

That which covers or shelters like a shroud.

A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.

The branching top of a tree; foliage.

A set of ropes serving as stays to support the masts. The lower shrouds are secured to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts and are passed around the head of the lower masts.

One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.

To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave.

To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil.

To take shelter or harbor.

To lop. See Shrood.

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Shroud Quotations

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Walt Whitman

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
Honore De Balzac

Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.
Milan Kundera

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.
Gordon B. Hinckley

When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.
Helen Hunt Jackson

I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
M. Night Shyamalan

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.
Anna Seward

Shroud Translations

shroud in French is drap mortuaire
shroud in German is Leichentuch
shroud in Spanish is mortaja

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