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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n.名词 noun
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plural os·su·ar·ies.
- : a place or receptacle for the bones of the dead.
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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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