ossuary

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In the end, I spent another $9.50 in the gift shop for a slim paperback that got me nearer to understanding Eemia, Numina, Ossuary and the other peoples and places that make up this scenario.

From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2021

Nearby, the Douaumont Ossuary is filled with the bones of 130,000 unidentified soldiers recovered from the battlefield.

From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2018

And the Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic features bones as Baroque decoration, including a coat of arms, garlands of skulls and a massive candelabra of pelvic bones, long bones and skulls.

From Washington Times • Feb. 4, 2017

The Douaumont Ossuary, a monument to 400,000 unidentified Frenchmen who fell defending the citadel, was dedicated.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various