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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

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

The ghost-witness of it all, The clock brings its proofs; Moments melt into moments, Like notes of sad music, Like a white cerement.

From Sandhya Songs of Twilight by Mukerji, Dhan Gopal

Three cold, bright moons have marched and wheeled;     And the white cerement that revealed     A Figure stretched upon a Shield,   Is turned to verdure; and the Land is now one mighty battle-field.

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8 National Spirit by Carman, Bliss




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