burial garment


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Noun1.burial garment - cloth used to cover a corpse in preparation for burial
cloth covering - a covering made of cloth
cerement, winding-clothes, winding-sheet, pall, shroud - burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
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Even the buttons, believed to have been used to secure upper part of her long-vanished burial garment, were made of amber and she also appears to have worn a bracelet of lignite beads.
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The list would include the "young man" ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]) at the tomb who met the startled women with news of the resurrection, but not before he'd been stripped of his burial garment earlier at Gethsemane (14:51-52), vanished beneath the story of Jesus' death, dispatched to a tomb, and finally given a new, white robe and directions for where the disciples might see the crucified and risen one, even as he'd promised (16:5-7).
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