What is "cerements"

Usage examples of "cerements".

Back River, Bush River, Gunpowder Creek,--lives there the man with soul so dead that his memory has cerements to wrap up these senseless names in the same envelopes with their meaningless localities?

The torso with its limbs, garbed in some crude but decent cerements, was now laid reverently within.

I understood little more than that I was alive, though garbed in the cerements of the grave.

The figure stopped, and at the moment a ray of moonlight fell upon the masses of driving clouds, and showed in startling prominence a dark-haired woman, dressed in the cerements of the grave.

Imagine the terrorthe blackness, the silence of the grave, the screams that can never be heard, the hopeless rending of cerements, the tearing and biting, the struggling and writhing, and finally the slow painful death from suffocation.

So let me lie one day, One long, eternal day, in sunshine bathed, In cerements of silken tissue swathed, Smothered 'neath flowers of May.