Definition of "strewments" []

• Strewings; flowers strewn on a coffin (noun)

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• "Well, here I am tonight, hoping for sleep, and lying like Ophelia in the play, with ‘virgin crants and maiden strewments.’"
• "Well, here I am to-night, hoping for sleep, and lying like Ophelia in the play, with "virgin crants and maiden strewments.""
• "Her maiden strewments, and the bringing home Of bell and burial Laer."