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CEREMENTS

[noun] 

1. a cerecloth used for wrapping the dead. 

2. any graveclothes. 

Etymology: from French cirement, from cirer, “to wax”; late Middle English ceren < Latin cērāre, “to wax”, verbal derivative of cēra, “wax”.

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CONFABULATION 

[noun] 

1. the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion. 

2.

a memory disturbance, defined as the production of fabricated, distorted or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world, without the conscious intention to deceive

Etymology: from Latin confābulātus (past participle of confābulārī, “to talk together”), equivalent to con-, together” + fābul(a), “conversation; fable”.

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Vlad Rodriguez – In the Fight Club! with Helena Bonham Carter (Marla Singer)

TATTERDEMALION

[noun]

1. a person wearing ragged or tattered clothing; a ragamuffin.

2. a person dressed in ragged clothes.

3. a dirty shabbily clothed urchin; a poor and often mischievous city child.

4. a person resembling a tattered scarecrow.

[adjective]

5. ragged; tattered.

Etymology: from tatter, late Middle English < Old Norse tǫturr, “rag, tatter”; akin to Old English tætteca, “rag, shred” + demalion, of uncertain origin.