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shroud verb adumbrate, becloud, befog, blanket, bury, cloak, closet, conceal, cover, curtain, darken, eclipse, encase, ensconce, envelop, enwrap, hide, mask, muffle, obscure, overshadow, protect, render invisible, screen, seclude, sheathe, shelter, suppress, veil, velare, wrap See also: blind, camouflage, cloak, conceal, cover, disguise, ensconce, enshroud, envelop, guard, harbor, hide, obfuscate, obliterate, obnubilate, obscure, plant, protect, screen, suppress, veil How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| scientists from New York, Arizona, Zurich Switzerland, Oxford, England, and the British Museum, announced that the Shroud of Turin originated sometime between the years 1260 and 1390, identifying the Shroud as a pious icon rather than the burial Shroud of Jesus. As major Madagascar art forms, shawls, dresses, loose-fitting shirts, and also burial shrouds are "fundamental to an individual's ethnic, ideological, spiritual, social, political, and economic identities. And Penelope's ruse to keep the suitors at bay, her refusing to remarry until she finishes sewing a burial shroud for Ulysses's father, finds its counterpart in Kentridge's drawing and erasing, as each day's progress is unraveled at night. |
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