I first tried a black, shapeless cowl-neck shroud in silk jersey ($575), something I thought Tilda Swinton might wear triumphantly to the funeral of someone she had killed.
For the better part of an hour, she applied lotion, then rubbed hot stones along the curves of my face and neck, then shrouded me in a hot towel.
On it, two shirtless men are washing their arms, necks, and chests, shrouded in chiaroscuro lighting and steam.
I crane my neck higher to see a shroud of gossamer, jagged peaks poking through the swirling soup like cathedral spires.
Cameron was extremely conscious of fashion, even though she projected a sublime disregard for it, shrouding her models from the neck down in black velvet or the folds of a shawl.
With his face and body shrouded in red fabric, tight around the neck like a napkin ghost, or wielding a pole within his costume to make it billow, he suggested what Martha Graham might have seen in Wigman.
In their last desperate struggle Ahab tries to spear the whale with his harpoon, but the rope catches him about the neck and Moby Dick drags him down into the depths, "and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago".
This could be the winding shroud for Isadora Duncan, made from remnants of the scarf that broke her neck when one trailing end got caught in the wheel of the roadster she was riding in.
After you'd been sitting in a room shrouded in darkness for what seemed like hours, a moist, gentle object tapped your neck.
(Banville thinks "Shroud" is better).
