charnel house
noun/ˈtʃɑːnl haʊs/
/ˈtʃɑːrnl haʊs/
- a place used in the past for keeping dead human bodies or bonesWord Originmid 16th cent.: from Middle English charnel ‘burying place’, from Old French, from medieval Latin carnale, from late Latin carnalis ‘relating to flesh’, from caro, carn- ‘flesh’.
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