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Cerement

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A burial shroud or garment. often, plural

    "Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death, have burst their cerements."

  2. 2
    burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped wordnet
  3. 3
    Cerecloth. specifically

Etymology

From French cirement (“waxing, wax dressing”), from cirer (“to wax, wrap”).

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