columbarium

/kol-uhm-bair-ee-uhm/US // ˌkɒl əmˈbɛər i əm //UK // (ˌkɒləmˈbɛərɪəm) //

骨灰龛,骨灰堂,骨灰盒,骨灰灰场

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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plural col·um·bar·i·a [kol-uhm-bair-ee-uh]. /ˌkɒl əmˈbɛər i ə/.
- : a sepulchral vault or other structure with recesses in the walls to receive the ashes of the dead.
- : any one of these recesses.
- : columbary.

Grace, a lawyer, and fellow Holy Trinity parishioner Jack Brady, an architect, proposed building a columbarium at Holy Rood.
Thus they looked somewhat like the little entrances to a pigeon-house, and hence the name of Columbarium.
As the niche was like a dove's nest in shape, it was called a "columbarium," the whole tomb a "columbaria."
So as she still sat with shining eyes, dreaming again of that columbarium, I pressed to the next point.
Columbarium, literally a pigeon-house—a Roman sepulchre built in many compartments.
I well remember dreaming that I was a disused columbarium which had been converted into a brewery and was used as a greenhouse.