Cerement

  • 21canopy — Synonyms and related words: Caelus, air, altar carpet, altar cloth, antimacassar, apply to, awning, azure, baldacchino, baldachin, belvedere, blanket, blind, block, blue sky, caelum, canopy of heaven, centerpiece, cerecloth, cerement, cerulean,… …

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  • 22cover — Synonyms and related words: American plan, European plan, Smyth sewing, a la carte, abri, account for, accouple, accumulate, act, admit, afghan, agglutinate, air cover, air raid, air support, air raid shelter, alibi, altar carpet, altar cloth,… …

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  • 23shroud — Synonyms and related words: advocate, alpenstock, apparel, arm, armor, array, athletic supporter, attire, back, backbone, backing, bandeau, bearer, becloud, bedeck, bedrape, befog, blanket, bless, blind, block out, box, bra, brace, bracer,… …

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  • 24covering — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Something placed over another Nouns 1. covering, cover; superposition, superimposition; packaging; eclipse. 2. roof, ceiling, canopy, awning, tent, pavilion, marquee; umbrella, parasol, sunshade; veil,… …

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  • 25interment — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Burial Nouns 1. interment, burial, sepulture, inhumation, inurnment; cryonics (see cold). 2. (burial rites) obsequies, exequies, funeral [rites], last rites, extreme unction; embalming; wake; pyre,… …

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  • 26sheet — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. bedsheet; shroud, winding sheet, cerement; page, leaf, folio; plane, surface, plate, lamina, layer, membrane; rope, main sheet. See covering, horizontal, interment, navigation. II (Roget s IV) n. 1.… …

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  • 27Oil — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Oil >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 oil oil fat butter cream grease tallow suet lard dripping exunge| blubber Sgm: N 1 glycerin glycerin stearin elaine …

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  • 28graveclothes — n. shroud, cerement, cloths in which a body is wrapped before burial …

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  • 29shroud — ʃraÊŠd n. burial cloth, sheet used to wrap a body for burial, cerement; covering, something that covers like a shroud; one of the ropes supporting a ship s mast v. wrap in cerements, wrap a corpse in a burial cloth; conceal, obscure, screen from …

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  • 30shrouded — adj. concealed, covered, obscured; wrapped in cerements, wrapped in a burial cloth ʃraÊŠd n. burial cloth, sheet used to wrap a body for burial, cerement; covering, something that covers like a shroud; one of the ropes supporting a ship s mast v …

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