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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: charnel house
charnel house
n : a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited
[syn:
charnel]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Charnel house
Charnel
\Char"nel\, a. [F. charnel carnal, fleshly, fr. L.
carnalis. See
Carnal.]
Containing the bodies of the dead.
“Charnel vaults.”
--Milton.
[1913 Webster]
Charnel house, a tomb, vault, cemetery, or other place
where the bones of the dead are deposited; originally, a
place for the bones thrown up when digging new graves in
old burial grounds.
[1913 Webster]
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