Dictionary

facecloth en · NOUN

Etymology

From face + cloth.

Meanings

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:

Forms

Translations (10)

za soujgaennaj (flannel for washing the face) · pl myjka (flannel for washing the face) · za uetnaj (flannel for washing the face) · ky жумшак жуугуч (flannel for washing the face) · ky жумшак майлык (flannel for washing the face) · bg кърпа за лице (flannel for washing the face) · za gaenswiqnaj (flannel for washing the face) · grc φακιάλιον (flannel for washing the face) · za sujbaqnaj (flannel for washing the face) · sh trljačica (flannel for washing the face)