cerement

• Linceul ou vêtement funéraire dans lequel on enveloppe un corps pour l'inhumer.

A burial garment, such as a shroud or winding sheet, in which a corpse is wrapped for interment.

1. Burial garmentC2formal

   A cloth or garment in which a dead body is wrapped for burial.

   Linceul funéraire

   • The ancient tomb contained a body wrapped in linen cerements.
   • The priest carefully arranged the cerement over the deceased.
   • Historians found fragments of a silk cerement in the sarcophagus.

   Synonymespallshroud