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ossuary

noun as in urn

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The French cemetery at Notre Dame de Lorette has 20,000 named graves and an ossuary with 20,000 unknown dead.

Ossuary, os′ū-ar-i, n. a place where the bones of the dead are deposited: a charnel-house.

After a time the body is taken up, the bones cleaned, and deposited in an ossuary called the Quiogozon.

They are probably now in the catacombs of Paris, mingled with those of the thousands of unknown or paupers in that great ossuary.

I love to go to his ossuary of dead transactions, as I would visit the catacombs of Rome or Paris.

In the middle, an open ossuary contains skeletons that have been exhumed in order to make room for other corpses.

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ossuary, such as: container, receptacle, vault, and vessel.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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