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cerement

cerement noun: a burial shroud or garment.

Noun

cerement (plural cerements)

  1. (often, plural) A burial shroud or garment.
    • […]; but tell / Why thy Canoniz’d bones Hearſed in death, / Haue burſt their cerments, why the Sepulcher / Wherein we ſaw thee quietly enurn’d, / Hath op’d his ponderous and Marble iawes, / To caſt thee vp againe?c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
    • Oh! when his sacred dust
      The cerements of the tomb shall burst,
      Might I be worthy at his feet to rise,
      To yonder blissful skies,
      Where angel-hosts resplendent shine,
      Jehovah!—Lord of Hosts, the glory shall be thine.1834, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Barzillai the Gileadite, page 26
  2. (specifically) Cerecloth.

cerement meaning in Tamil

cerement in Tamil

பிணமூடாக்கு, கல்லறை மூடாக்கு, சல்லாத் துணி

Examples of cerement in a sentence

  • "Who is the woman in the cerements?", she inconsequently wondered.1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 77
  • The cerements still cling to their wasted frames, but will soon be exchanged for a gayer garb in their passage from the tomb to the temple.1921, Sir James George Frazer, Apollodorus: The Library (Loeb Classical Library), volume I, Introduction, § 1: “The Author and His Book”...

Synonyms of cerement

Forms of cerement

pluralcerements

Origin of cerement

From French cirement (“waxing, wax dressing”), from cirer (“to wax, wrap”).

Words formed from cerement

Questions about cerement

What does cerement mean?
Cerement means a burial shroud or garment.
What is cerement in Tamil?
Cerement in Tamil is பிணமூடாக்கு, கல்லறை மூடாக்கு, சல்லாத் துணி. See Cerement meaning in Tamil.
How do you use cerement in a sentence?
"Who is the woman in the cerements?", she inconsequently wondered.
What part of speech is cerement?
Cerement is a noun.
What is the plural of cerement?
The plural of cerement is cerements.

Words near cerement in the dictionary

  1. cereicidin
  2. cereicidins
  3. cerein
  4. cereins
  5. cereless
  6. cerement
  7. cerements
  8. ceremide
  9. ceremides
  10. ceremonial
  11. ceremonial counties

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cerement (page history and authors); cerement (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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