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Ossuary

noun
(pl. ossuaries)
1.
Any receptacle for the burial of human bones.





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"Ossuary" Quotes from Famous Books



... Ville, built in 1675 on the site of the Roman baths constructed by the Emperor Augustus. The spacious vaults under the Htel du Nord formed probably a part of these baths, although in later times they seem to have been used as an ossuary. ...
— The South of France—East Half • Charles Bertram Black
... Bartram,[22] in alluding to the ossuary, or bone-house, mentions that so soon as this is filled a general inhumation takes place, in ...
— A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians • H.C. Yarrow


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