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BURIAL GARMENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does burial garment mean?
• BURIAL GARMENT (noun)
The noun BURIAL GARMENT has 1 sense:
1. cloth used to cover a corpse in preparation for burial
Familiarity information: BURIAL GARMENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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)
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