pall, shroud, cerement, winding-sheet, winding-clothes
(noun) burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
Source: WordNet® 3.1
cerement (plural cerements)
A burial shroud or garment.
Cerecloth.
• winding clothes
• winding sheet
• pall
• cementer, re-cement, recement
Source: Wiktionary
Cere"ment, n. Etym: [L. cera wax: cf. F. cirement.] (a) A cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a dead body when embalmed. (b) Any shroud or wrapping for the dead.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 February 2025
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
