MEANING
A burial wrapping or garment enclosing a dead body.
Use it for
Antiquarian narration, ceremonial burial, old descriptions of death.Create a distinctly older narrative voice without inventing supernatural properties.
Words that belong together
- funeral cerements
- wrapped in cerements
- loosen the cerements
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The cerements had been sewn with thread darker than the cloth.
In the inventory, a silk cerement cost more than the coffin.
They lifted the body without disturbing its cerements.
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- cerement
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Usage notes
Primary category: gothic. Rare and literary, usually plural cerements; strongly archaizing, so use deliberately rather than as everyday medical language. Plural cerements; commonly used in the plural.
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