| Summary: | habit This was a garment in which a corpse was waked and buried. It was a Catholic custom, and I think had a special blessing. I only remember seeing them folded, and I think they were mostly brown, with light blue for young people, and they had a medallion sewn on the breast. There was a house I passed on my way to school-/on Gower Street- which had a sign in the window: Habits made here". [see also 'winding cloth' 'stroud', 'winding sheet'] JH 7/70 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Not used 'winding cloth', 'stroud', 'winding sheet' Card is stamped DNE-cit but there is no evidence of the information on the card in entries for 'habit' or 'stroud'.
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