cerement

• Pano ou mortalha com que se envolve o corpo de um morto para o sepultamento; qualquer tecido usado como invólucro funerário.

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.

   Mortalha

   • 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.

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