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charnel house
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synonyms: ossuary ???
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Definition:a building housing the bones of the deceased; a crypt
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he had passed through tens of dozens of towns and cities, and all of them had been stinking charnel houses.
Stephen King. The Stand (1990)
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I daresay the soil would be quite fat with corpsemanure, bones, flesh, nails. Charnelhouses. Dreadful.James Joyce. Ulysses
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