facecloth
nounEtymology From face + cloth.
1
A flannel for washing the face.
2
A cloth laid over the face of a corpse.
- The same word, soudarion, is used for the facecloth of Jesus in John 20:7.2012, Michel Barnes, A Man of the Church, page 226:
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