cerements
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They had probably been attracted by the smell of the mummies and their cerements, that lay strewn about the tent.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 25, 2020
At length the pair return, and when Sirki tries to frighten Grazia back to mundanity by revealing himself in his habitual cerements, she alone of all the company shows no fear of Death.
From Time Magazine Archive
The figure stopped, and at the moment a ray of moonlight fell upon the masses of driving clouds and showed in startling prominence a dark-haired woman, dressed in the cerements of the grave.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
Then he who found his cerements gone, From out the graveyard gazed and signed His winding-sheet should be resigned.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
His clothes still clung like damp cerements to his body.
From She's All the World to Me by Sir Hall Caine
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