cerement

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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

And then again I saw it lying very quietly in the clutch of a bitter winter—an awful hush upon it, and the white cerement of the snow flung across its face.

From The River and I by Neihardt, John G.

All then shall speak of me: The tyranny of silence is not lasting, And, though events be hidden, just men's groans80 Will burst all cerement, even a living grave's!

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

Also, I don't call marriage, for instance, an old cerement.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir