shroud
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A shroud is primarily a burial garment, also known as a winding-sheet or cerement. It is used to wrap a deceased person for burial. In Islam, the standard graveclothes, called kafan, consist of three white linen pieces: the iz\u0101r (lower garment), the rid\u0101\u02be (upper garment), and the lif\u0101fah (overall shroud). Martyrs, however, are buried in the clothes they died in. In Judaism, shrouds are typically made of unadorned white linen, following a ruling by Rabbi Gamaliel the Elder. The tallit (prayer shawl) of the deceased may be added to the shroud, but with its fringes removed. The term "shroud" can also refer to anything that covers or screens, such as protective guards on spacecraft or ropes on a ship's mast.123
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religious dressLater religious dressShrouds are normally of unadorned white linen, following the sumptuary ruling of the 1st-century-ce rabbi Gamaliel the Elder. To the shroud may be added the ṭallit used by the deceased, but with the fringes removed or cut, because the prescription governing their use applies only…
Read MoreShrouds are normally of unadorned white linen, following the sumptuary ruling of the 1st-century-ce rabbi Gamaliel the Elder. To the shroud may be added the ṭallit used by the deceased, but with the fringes removed or cut, because the prescription governing their use applies only…
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…graveclothes are the threefold linen shroud, or kafan, consisting of the izār, or lower garment; the ridāʾ, or upper garment; and the lifāfah, or overall shroud. Martyrs, however, are buried in the clothes in which they die, without their bodies or their garments being washed, because the blood and the…
Read More…graveclothes are the threefold linen shroud, or kafan, consisting of the izār, or lower garment; the ridāʾ, or upper garment; and the lifāfah, or overall shroud. Martyrs, however, are buried in the clothes in which they die, without their bodies or their garments being washed, because the blood and the…
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