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ossuary

/osh-oo-er-ee, os-/US // ˈɒʃ uˌɛr i, ˈɒs- //UK // (ˈɒsjʊərɪ) //

骨灰龛,墓地,骨髓库,骨灰库

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural os·su·ar·ies.

    • : a place or receptacle for the bones of the dead.

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Examples

  • 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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