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- Dictionarycharnel house/ˈtʃɑːnl haʊs/
noun
- 1. a building or vault in which corpses or bones are piled. historical
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Vault or building where human skeletal remains are stored
A charnel house is a vault or building where human skeletal remains are stored. They are often built near churches for depositing bones that are unearthed while digging graves. The term can also be used more generally as a description of a place filled with death and destruction. Wikipedia
