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Cerement   Listen
noun
Cerement  n.  
1.
A cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a dead body when embalmed.
2.
Any shroud or wrapping for the dead.





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"Cerement" Quotes from Famous Books



... true, That she lives anew? That she rises up at the shout of her sons, At the trumpet of France, And lives anew?—is it true That she has not moved in a trance, As in Forty-eight? When her eyes were troubled with blood Till she knew not friend from foe, Till her hand was caught in a strait Of her cerement and baffled so From doing the deed she would; And her weak foot stumbled across The grave of a king, And down she dropt at heavy loss, And we gloomily covered her face and said, "We have dreamed the thing; She ...
— The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
... not? All then shall speak of me: The tyranny of silence is not lasting, And, though events be hidden, just men's groans 80 Will burst all cerement, even a living grave's! I do not doubt my memory, but my life; ...
— The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron


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