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

Example sentences :

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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