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Antonyms for cerements
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : seer-muh nt, ser-uh- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɪər mənt, ˈsɛr ə- |
Definition of cerements
- As in shroud : noun covering
- It was a long bundle, as long as a man, and was swathed in cerements of white Egyptian tissue.
- Extract from : « HE » by Andrew Lang
- As she spoke she held up part of her cerements for me to see.
- Extract from : « The Lady of the Shroud » by Bram Stoker
- It was not as if my first idea of death taken from her cerements was negatived.
- Extract from : « The Lady of the Shroud » by Bram Stoker
- Suffice it to say that for countless ages they lay concealed in the cerements of a mummy.
- Extract from : « The Argosy » by Various
- Both awaited the return of summer to change into winged insects, burst their cerements, and proceed as their parents did.
- Extract from : « Insect Architecture » by James Rennie
- His sister bent over him, her face white like the cerements of the dead, and Mademoiselle ran forward.
- Extract from : « Hurricane Island » by H. B. Marriott Watson
- For our own part, we always wish to feel the difference between sheets and cerements.
- Extract from : « Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) » by John Wilson
- Rather would I be”—here she hesitated for an instant, but as she caught sight of her cerements went on hurriedly—“as I am.
- Extract from : « The Lady of the Shroud » by Bram Stoker
- I made no reply but lay motionless, watching the tamaracks, ghostly in their cerements of silver fog.
- Extract from : « The Little Red Foot » by Robert W. Chambers
- The ghost of Chesterfield ought in mercy to have burst from his cerements to have answered it.
- Extract from : « Bentley's Miscellany, Volume II » by Various
Synonyms for cerements
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