a piece of cloth that a dead person’s body is wrapped in before it is buried 裹尸布；寿衣 a burial shroud 裹尸布
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 覆盖物；遮蔽物
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’.