facecloth

See also: face cloth

English

Etymology

face +‎ cloth.

Noun

facecloth (plural facecloths)

1. A flannel for washing the face.
2. 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

• Bulgarian: кърпа за лице f (kǎrpa za lice)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: φακιάλιον n (phakiálion)

• Kyrgyz: жумшак жуугуч (ky) (jumşak juuguc), жумшак майлык (ky) (jumşak maylık)
• Serbo-Croatian: trljačica (sh) f