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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Selection Vocabulary 3, Unit 4
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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
Also, I don't call marriage, for instance, an old cerement.
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
Then the corpse, covered by a long cerement, was tenderly lifted up by six of the nearest kinfolk and borne towards the dark thing I have described.
From The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
There was another darkness about her, thicker than the mere night, like a black cerement dropping over her soul.
From Wild Oranges by Joseph Hergesheimer
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