charnel house
NounSynonyms:
charnel
WordNet 3.0
Noun (1)
- a vault or building where corpses or bones are depositedSynonyms: charnel
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
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.
From the entry Charnel.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54