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Definition of Swathed
1. swathe [v] - See also: swathe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swathed
Literary usage of Swathed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... anointed it with olive oil, And closed its wounds with balm nine years in
store ; Then laid it on a bier, from head to foot swathed in fine linen-cloth, ..."
2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... The bodies were* interred wrapped in linen cloths, or swathed in bands, and
were frequency preserved ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... The bodies were interred wrapped in linen cloths, or swathed in bands, and
were frequently by embalming. In the case of poorer interments the ..."
4. Renaissance and Modern Art by William Henry Goodyear (1908)
"swathed Infant in Enameled Terra difficult to See why the Architectural Decorations
of the Loggia same talent and the Cotta. By Andrea della Robbia. ..."
5. The Antiquary (1873)
"... to come swathed with placards and with dustman's bells and watchmen's rattles
in their capacious pockets, eager to raise their war- ay— "Death or OP, ..."
6. Guesses at Truth by Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1847)
"Any other sacrifice we are content to make : but our feet must continue as
heretofore, swathed up in fleecy hosiery, especially when we ride or walk. ..."
7. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation of the by Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"... three feet broad and three feet deep, composed of several pieces joined by
mortar ; the body, placed therein on its back, was swathed and embalmed, ..."
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