cerement

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From French cirement (“waxing, wax dressing”), from cirer (“to wax, wrap”).

Noun[edit]

cerement (plural cerements)

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

Quotations[edit]

  • c. 1600, Shakespeare, Hamlet
    Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death, have burst their cerements.
  • 1834, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Barzillai the Gileadite, page 26:
    Oh! when his sacred dust
    The cerements of the tomb shall burst,
    Might I be worthy at his feet to rise,
    To yonder blissful skies,
    Where angel-hosts resplendent shine,
    Jehovah!—Lord of Hosts, the glory shall be thine.
  • 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.
  • 1971, Anthony Burgess, M/F, Penguin, published 2004, page 62:
    Her red robe billowed, all in wood, except where the great phallic spike of her martyrdom had called forth blood to tack the cerement to her body.

Synonyms[edit]

Translations[edit]

cerecloth — see cerecloth

Anagrams[edit]

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