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Discover LudwigThe phrase "winding cloth" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a type of fabric that is twisted or coiled, often in the context of wrapping or binding. Example: "The artisan carefully selected a winding cloth to wrap the delicate pottery for transport."
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winding cloth
noun
A burial shroud.
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Mr. Ruggero, 55, was winding cloth wrap around each student's still-delicate hands, a process associated with cigar-smoky locker rooms, not a school focusing on math, science and technology.
Laura Rees is a lovely Lavinia: controlled and tranquil, until she is maimed, when she becomes like a marionette with hopelessly tangled strings, quivering in a dress like a winding cloth.
"Your Funeral, My Trial" is a great late-night Nashville ballad, and "Deanna" is that rare thing from Cave: a straightforward goofy pop song, in which you're too busy dancing to worry about what is meant by "a winding cloth draws many moths around your Ku Klux furniture".
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Some of the youngest were buried adorned with strings of beads or other jewelry, and had their winding cloths fastened with rows of brass pins, suggesting the loving and protective care of the adults who mourned them.
Ways to carry on the fight meaningfully include: If you can't dodge a bite, say "Wraps wound in cloth" and wear a blanket.
Run too slowly and you would find yourself caught in this daily dust storm, bent double into the salty wind on the high passes, having to wrap cloth around your face for protection.
(d) Copper winding covered with a cloth.
There was a red cloth wound around the tower, and Sopheng said that the cloth showed that this was a living temple where locals came to leave their offerings and to ask the gods to answer their prayers.
"Your husband is supposed to show up at social functions with you at his side, dressed in a kain and kebaya," a costume consisting of a traditional, tightly fitted, long-sleeved blouse and a length of unstitched cloth wound around the lower part of the body.
Visitors to one of the last tapings of "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" are led up a back staircase by an NBC page, winding carefully past dusty drop cloths and dumpsters piled with construction waste.
The people of southeastern Afghanistan wind the cloth large and loose so it looks as if the whole structure might topple off; Kabul residents prefer a smaller, tighter look.
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