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cerement
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synonyms: winding sheet, mound shroud, shrouding sheet ???
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Definition:(a) A cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a dead body when embalmed.(b) Any shroud or wrapping for the dead.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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they all conceived a great veneration for Ser Ciappelletto, and at the close of the office came pressing forward with the utmost vehemence to kiss the feet and the hands of the corpse, from which they tore off the cerements, each thinking himself blessed to have but a scrap thereof in his possession;
Giovanni Boccaccio. The Decameron, Volume I
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Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death, have burst their cerements.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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he had no reason to believe in the immortality of his clothes, nor did he offer them as cerements for the supreme repose in peace.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 5]
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