columbarium 的定义
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.
更多columbarium例句
- 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.