cerement

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Inevitably, they found themselves underground with a crumbling object in “gaudy cerements.”

From New York Times

The May 13 commencement cerement will be held at 7 p.m. at Arizona Stadium.

From Washington Times

The cloud ghost was upon her—she was already enveloped in its trailing cerements.

From Project Gutenberg

"Incidens": Young reader, you must go back more than a century to understand the "pathology" that is wrapped up in that word like a mummy in its cerements.

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Moreover, according to Plutarch, the holy rites represented the burial of Osiris: in these the wood was cut for the chest, the linen torn for cerements, and libations poured.

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