facecloth

See also: face cloth

English

Etymology

face +‎ cloth.

Noun

facecloth (plural facecloths)

A flannel for washing the face.
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.

Translations

flannel for washing the face

Kyrgyz: жумшак жуугуч (ky) (cumşak cuuguç), жумшак майлык (ky) (cumşak maylık)

Serbo-Croatian: trljačica (sh) f

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