cerements

I made no reply but lay motionless, watching the tamaracks, ghostly in their cerements of silver fog.

Having poured it over him, they put him again into his bed, where he soon learned how a mummy must feel in its cerements.

It was this hetæra who wrapped the dead body in cerements, and saw it decently interred.

I beg to say that when I speak of 'old cerements' being put off, I pre-suppose a living body in resurrection.

His large frame seemed boneless, and, except for the cerements of his mud-stiffened clothing, was limp and sodden.