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cerement

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8 lettersPart of speech nounSorted ceeemnrtStarts with CEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • […]; but tell / Why thy Canoniz’d bones Hearſed in death, / Haue burſt their cerments, why the Sepulcher / Wherein we ſaw thee quietly enurn’d, / Hath op’d his ponderous and Marble iawes, / To caſt thee vp againe?
  • Oh! when his sacred dust The cerements of the tomb shall burst, Might I be worthy at his feet to rise, To yonder blissful skies, Where angel-hosts resplendent shine, Jehovah!—Lord of Hosts, the glory shall be thine.
  • "Who is the woman in the cerements?", she inconsequently wondered.

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