winding-sheet in English

noun
1
a sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial; a shroud.
Their beds have become their cooling boards; their blankets have become their winding sheets .
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1. 4 synonyms for Cerement: winding-clothes, winding-sheet, pall, shroud

2. The winding sheet was also found permeated with excessive dampness.

3. 4 synonyms for Cerement: winding-clothes, winding-sheet, pall, shroud

4. Synonyms for Cerement include pall, shroud, winding clothes, winding sheet, cerecloth, chrisom, grave-clothes, sindon, burial clothes and grave clothes

5. Cerement - burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped winding-clothes , winding-sheet , pall , shroud burial garment - cloth used to cover a corpse in preparation for burial

6. Cerement: 1 n burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped Synonyms: pall , shroud , winding-clothes , winding-sheet Type of: burial garment cloth used to cover a corpse in preparation for burial