What does cerement mean?
Cerement means (often plural) A burial shroud or garment..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(often plural) A burial shroud or garment..
"Who is the woman in the cerements?", she inconsequently wondered.
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.
[…]; 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?
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.
Use cerement when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cerement means (often plural) A burial shroud or garment..
Common synonyms include winding clothes, winding sheet, pall, shroud.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"Who is the woman in the cerements?", she inconsequently wondered.
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