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BURIAL GARMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cloth used to cover a corpse in preparation for burial
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("burial garment" is a kind of...):
cloth covering (a covering made of cloth)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "burial garment"):
cerement; pall; shroud; winding-clothes; winding-sheet (burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped)