Definition of "cerement" []

• Cerecloth. (noun)
• A burial garment. Often used in the plural. (noun)

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• ""cerement," the cloth dipped "in melting wax, in which dead bodies were enfolded when embalmed" (_Hamlet_, act i.sc. 4), but the sense of the passage seems rather to point to "cerecloth," "searcloth," a plaster to cover up a wound."
• "A gauzy veil of white covered her head, like a cerement of the grave."
• "And I'll give you ten to one I was there as well, bound in the cerement of faint rain's chill vigil."