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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

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 Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees

Wrapper by wrapper he undid, cerement on cerement, till both Leonora and I wondered when he would stop.

From He by Walter Herries Pollock

They knock the stony cerement that enshrines me.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 544, April 28, 1832 by Various




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