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

The moonlight gleamed on the high-pitched red roof, and drenched the garden in whiteness, but the mist which rose from the waters of the moat swathed the walls of the house like a cerement.

From The Hand in the Dark by Rees, Arthur J. (Arthur John)

Now is the grass all withered up and dead,     And shrouded in its cerement of the snow; Now the enfeebled Sun goes soon to bed,     And rises late and carries his head low.

From Sonnets and Other Verse by MacKeracher, W. M.

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