ossuary

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  1. noun A container or receptacle, such as an urn or a vault, for holding the bones of the dead.

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  • The entrance to this underground ossuary is inconspicuous and unspectacular to say the least. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • St. Thégonnec is the patron saint of all animals, and to him the peasants appeal for success and good-luck in such matters Adjoining the triumphal arch is a Flamboyant ossuary or mortuary chapel, dated 1581, richly gabled, in perfect preservation, and of two storeys. —  The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891
  • The triumphal arch and ossuary are very inferior to St. Thégonnec, but the calvary is a magnificent monument, unequalled in Brittany, richly sculptured and ornamented. —  The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891
  • Are they lighting bonfires here The procession had turned on reaching the Rond Point, where the ossuary was situated--the common vault gradually filled with all the remnants removed from the graves, and the stone slab of which, in the centre of a circular lawn, disappeared under a heap of wreaths, deposited there by the pious relatives of those who no longer had an individual resting-place. —  His Masterpiece
  • A two-part skeleton of a midget in a partially underground ossuary wasn't in the realm of possibility; but whatever existed there, it caused their squeamish giggling. —  Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
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  1. Late Latin ossuārium, from neuter of Latin ossuārius, of bones, from os, oss-, bone; see ost- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Late Latin ossuarium, also ossarium, a receptacle for the bones of the dead, a charnel-house, neuter of ossuarius, of or for bones, from Latin os (oss-), bone: see os.
 

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