WordNet
burial garment
n. cloth used to cover a corpse in preparation for burial
Usage examples of "burial garment".
Since she had been old enough to thread a needle, she had worked on her father's burial garment, and he had proudly worn it at every festival, and now the heartbroken father had dressed his daughter in his own garment.
About his shoulders was a cloak of fine white wool, wrapped as though it were a burial garment.
She was on her hands and knees on the temple floor with a soft-bristled paintbrush, gently clearing away dust and tiny bits of rubble from a burial garment.