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cerement

noun as in shroud

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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?”

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.

They had probably been attracted by the smell of the mummies and their cerements, that lay strewn about the tent.

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

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

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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