• Facecloth

    Origin

    face + cloth.

    Full definition of facecloth

    Noun

    facecloth

    (plural facecloths)
    1. A flannel for washing the face.
    2. A cloth laid over the face of a corpse.
      • 2012, Michel Barnes, A Man of the Church (page 226)The same word, soudarion, is used for the facecloth of Jesus in John 20:7.
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