noun.
Cloth dipped in melted wax and used in wrapping dead bodies when they are embalmed; hence, any grave-cloth; in the plural, grave-clothes in general.
noun.
The under-cover of an altar-slab.
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noun.
A cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a dead body when embalmed.
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noun.
burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
Word Usage
""cerement," the cloth dipped "in melting wax, in which dead bodies were enfolded when embalmed" (_Hamlet_, act i.sc. 4), but the sense of the passage seems rather to point to "cerecloth," "searcloth," a plaster to cover up a wound."