charnel house.

A building or chamber used to store bodies or human bones, especially after removal from burial places.

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Words that belong together

• old charnel house
• bones in a charnel house

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The old charnel house stood beyond the church's eastern wall.

They found the displaced bones arranged inside the charnel house.

Usage notes

Primary category: gothic. Forms: Singular charnel house; plural charnel houses. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.