cerements

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

"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.