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cerement

[seer-muhnt, ser-uh-] / ˈsɪər mənt, ˈsɛr ə- /


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“Had not the singer of Wimpole Street said that they were binding up their hearts away from breaking with a cerement of the grave?”

From Washington Post Dec. 26, 2022

Above city hall, billowing smoke from 1,000 fires hung like a cerement.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wrapper by wrapper he undid, cerement on cerement, till both Leonora and I wondered when he would stop.

From He by Pollock, Walter Herries

The best I have within me declares that the fleshly wrapping becomes at the end but a cumbering cerement; that through life, it is a spirit-vault.

From She Buildeth Her House by Comfort, William Wistar

They are seeking Death in life, as best to have; They are binding up their hearts away from breaking With a cerement from the grave.

From Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century by Joy, James Richard




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