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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Care-cloth

(The). The fine linen cloth laid over the newly-married in the Catholic Church. (Anglo-Saxon, cear, large, as cear wúnd (a big wound), cear sorh (a great sorrow), etc.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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