cerement
Americannoun
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a cerecloth used for wrapping the dead.
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any graveclothes.
noun
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another name for cerecloth
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any burial clothes
Etymology
Origin of cerement
Vocabulary lists containing cerement
"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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Example Sentences
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“Had not the singer of Wimpole Street said that they were binding up their hearts away from breaking with a cerement of the grave?”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 26, 2022
Above city hall, billowing smoke from 1,000 fires hung like a cerement.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were moving slowly; they were carrying something into the house—something in a white covering that hung heavily as a cerement in the heavy air.
From At Large by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
Now is the grass all withered up and dead, And shrouded in its cerement of the snow; Now the enfeebled Sun goes soon to bed, And rises late and carries his head low.
From Sonnets and Other Verse by W. M. MacKeracher
The moonlight gleamed on the high-pitched red roof, and drenched the garden in whiteness, but the mist which rose from the waters of the moat swathed the walls of the house like a cerement.
From The Hand in the Dark by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees
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