cerement

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) A burial shroud or garment.
 * 2) Cerecloth.

Quotations

 * 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 77
 * "Who is the woman in the cerements?", she inconsequently wondered.
 * 1921, Sir James George Frazer, Apollodorus: The Library (Loeb Classical Library), volume I, Introduction, § 1: “The Author and His Book”, page xxvii:
 * The cerements still cling to their wasted frames, but will soon be exchanged for a gayer garb in their passage from the tomb to the temple.
 * 1921, Sir James George Frazer, Apollodorus: The Library (Loeb Classical Library), volume I, Introduction, § 1: “The Author and His Book”, page xxvii:
 * The cerements still cling to their wasted frames, but will soon be exchanged for a gayer garb in their passage from the tomb to the temple.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Macedonian: са́ван