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Columbarium   Listen
noun
Columbarium  n.  (pl. L. columbaria)  (Rom. Antiq.)
(a)
A dovecote or pigeon house.
(b)
A sepulchral chamber with niches for holding cinerary urns.






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"Columbarium" Quotes from Famous Books



... a pigeonry much like that at Brantome, but on a smaller scale, that wiseacres have pronounced to be a Columbarium, not for doves, but for the reception of jars containing the ashes of the dead, and have attributed this dovecote to Roman times. Mr. William Stetton, a local antiquary, writing in 1806, stated that the excavation ...
— Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe • Sabine Baring-Gould

... cot, cabin, hut, chalet, croft, shed, booth, stall, hovel, bothy^, shanty, dugout [U.S.], wigwam; pen &c (inclosure) 232; barn, bawn^; kennel, sty, doghold^, cote, coop, hutch, byre; cow house, cow shed; stable, dovecote, columbary^, columbarium; shippen^; igloo, iglu^, jacal^; lacustrine dwelling^, lacuslake dwelling^, lacuspile dwelling^; log cabin, log house; shack, shebang [Slang], tepee, topek^. house, mansion, place, villa, cottage, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget



Words linked to "Columbarium" :   recess, burial vault, vault, dovecote, cinerarium



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