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Cerecloth vs Sparadrap - What's the difference?

cerecloth | sparadrap |

As nouns the difference between cerecloth and sparadrap

is that cerecloth is cloth coated with wax used for covering the dead while sparadrap is a cerecloth.

cerecloth

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Cloth coated with wax used for covering the dead.
  • *1594 — ii 7
  • *:'Twere damnation
    To think so base a thought; it were too gross
    To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.

    • sparadrap

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A cerecloth.
  • (medicine, obsolete) Any adhesive plaster.
    • (Webster 1913) ----