cerement

From French cirement ‘waxing, wax dressing’, from cirer ‘to wax, wrap’.

cerement (plural cerements)

1. A burial shroud or garment.
2. Cerecloth.

• c. 1600, Shakespeare, Hamlet

  Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death, have burst their cerements.

• 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 77

  "Who is the woman in the cerements?", she inconsequently wondered.

• 1971 Anthony Burgess, M/F, Penguin 2004, page 62

  Her red robe billowed, all in wood, except where the great phallic spike of her martyrdom had called forth blood to tack the cerement to her body.

• Bulgarian: саван, покров

• winding clothes
• winding sheet
• pall

• Template:alphagram
• cementer