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ossuary

[osh-oo-er-ee, os-] / ˈɒʃ uˌɛr i, ˈɒs- /


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Those concepts interlace in his ossuary, enlivened when he plays his tenderly kept records, remnants of human joy all but lost to a Rage pestilence.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026

Southern California has always been an ossuary of failed publications done in by apathetic readership, clueless owners or a combination of both.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2024

The layering suggests geological strata, or the arrangement of skulls in a medieval ossuary.

From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2023

He was buried in a specially designed crypt in the cathedral which he commissioned that will be the resting place of all future archbishops after the remains of their predecessors are transferred to an ossuary.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2022

Adjoining the triumphal arch is a Flamboyant ossuary or mortuary chapel, dated 1581, richly gabled, in perfect preservation, and of two storeys.

From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 by Charles W. Wood

Lasting art can be mysterious and often misunderstood; this can also be said of ossuaries.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026

His “Ruins of Rome” etchings depict landmarks like the Pantheon and the Castel Sant’Angelo, but its most famous images show rubble-strewn gardens and crumbling bridges, and tricorn-hatted gentlemen wandering through collapsed temples and overgrown ossuaries.

From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2021

Yesterday, in the presence of an expert appointed by the Orlandi family, forensic scientists extracted bones from two ossuaries found last week under a stone slab in a Vatican college.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2019

On Saturday, experts will examine two ossuaries - small chambers where dead are buried - found in the first search.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2019

What time the persons of these ossuaries entered the famous nations of the dead, and slept with princes and coun- sellors, might admit a wide solution.

From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Sir Thomas Browne




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