mort cloth
English
Alternative forms
- mortcloth
Noun
mort cloth (countable and uncountable, plural mort cloths)
- (Britain, obsolete) The pall spread over a coffin; black cloth indicative of mourning; funeral hangings.
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
- 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.
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for mort cloth in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)