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Charnel house   Listen
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Charnel  adj.  Containing the bodies of the dead. "Charnel vaults."
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.






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"Charnel house" Quotes from Famous Books



... got to the hotel, and I got a doctor and a nurse, and for two days I had to watch the revolution alone, while dad had fits of remorse 'cause he brought me to such a charnel house, ...
— Peck's Bad Boy Abroad • George W. Peck

... shrilly. Against the wall, which was below the street, were three green painted safes fast locked: but the opposite wall had in it the narrow door aforesaid, and a wide grated window, the bars of which were rusty, though strong. The atmosphere of the place was cold and musty and suggestive of a charnel house. Certainly a strange place in which to transact business, but everything about Aaron ...
— The Opal Serpent • Fergus Hume



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