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synonyms for cerements

  • cloak
  • pall
  • veil
  • cerecloth
  • cerement
  • clothing
  • cover
  • dress
  • envelope
  • garment
  • screen
  • shade
  • shadow
  • sheet
  • shelter
  • winding sheet
  • wrap
  • grave-clothes
On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cerements, such as: cloak, pall, veil, cerecloth, cerement, and clothing.

antonyms for cerements

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  • brightness
  • light
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How to use cerements in a sentence

I made no reply but lay motionless, watching the tamaracks, ghostly in their cerements of silver fog.
THE LITTLE RED FOOTROBERT W. CHAMBERS
Having poured it over him, they put him again into his bed, where he soon learned how a mummy must feel in its cerements.
THE PRINCESS AND CURDIEGEORGE MACDONALD
It was this hetæra who wrapped the dead body in cerements, and saw it decently interred.
CHARACTER SKETCHES OF ROMANCE, FICTION AND THE DRAMA, VOL 1THE REV. E. COBHAM BREWER, LL.D.
I beg to say that when I speak of 'old cerements' being put off, I pre-suppose a living body in resurrection.
THE LETTERS OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, VOLUME IIELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
His large frame seemed boneless, and, except for the cerements of his mud-stiffened clothing, was limp and sodden.
SUSY, A STORY OF THE PLAINSBRET HARTE
Except by their cerements, and the inscriptions on the cases, who could tell which had been the greater?
CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL, NO. 455VARIOUS
Cerements of lead and of wood already hold her; cold earth must have her soon.
THE BEST OF THE WORLD'S CLASSICS, VOL. V (OF X) - GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IIIVARIOUS
It was as if the mighty invisible demons of the night were capriciously trying the effects of cerements on the sleeping city.
ROUND THE BLOCKJOHN BELL BOUTON
At the door of the hotel they find Mrs. Le Marchant, who has broken from her cerements, and is looking anxiously out.
ALAS!RHODA BROUGHTON
It was a long bundle, as long as a man, and was swathed in cerements of white Egyptian tissue.
HEANDREW LANG
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO CEREMENTS

  • cerecloth
  • cerement
  • cerements
  • cloak
  • clothing
  • cover
  • dress
  • envelope
  • garment
  • grave-clothes
  • pall
  • screen
  • shade
  • shadow
  • sheet
  • shelter
  • veil
  • winding sheet
  • wrap
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