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Webster 1828 Edition

Noun.

[face and cloth.] A cloth laid over the face of a corpse.

See also: face cloth

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.

flannel for washing the face