English

Noun

mort cloth ‎(plural mort cloths)

1. (Britain, obsolete) The pall spread over a coffin; black cloth indicative of mourning; funeral hangings.
   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     A solemn National funeral-service ... the vast Champ-de-Mars wholly hung round with black mortcloth, — which mortcloth and expenditure Marat thinks had better have been laid out in bread, in these dear days, and given to the hungry living Patriot.