"linen" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The day is stark and stiff as a linen shroud.
- The show was stolen, however, by a team of acrobats wrapped in linen shrouds.
- The jerk of her hand under the linen shroud.
- The Entombment shows Christ's body, wrapped in a white linen shroud and still wearing a crown of thorns, as it is lowered into a deep stone tomb.
- He wears informal attire - in fact, a linen shroud - and he looks for all the world like a disheveled peasant.
- And a corpse, wrapped in a linen shroud.
- The body is clothed in a white linen shroud and not street clothes.
- Other portraits were painted on wooden coffin lids, linen shrouds and plaster heads.
- When the corpse arrived at Grinton churchyard it was buried without a coffin in a linen shroud.
- At this stage, the spells were typically inscribed on linen shrouds wrapped around the dead, though occasionally they are found written on coffins or on papyrus.
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