What (who) is Charnel - definition
VAULT OR BUILDING WHERE HUMAN SKELETAL REMAINS ARE STORED
Charnal house; Charnel; Charnel-house
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Charnel
·adj Containing the bodies of the dead.
II. Charnel ·noun A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery.
charnel house
(charnel houses)
A charnel house is a place where the bodies and bones of dead people are stored.
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charnel-house
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Ossuary, tomb. See grave.
Wikipedia
Charnel house
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.
The term is borrowed from Middle French charnel, from Late Latin carnāle ("graveyard"), from Latin carnālis ("of the flesh").
Pronunciation examples for Charnel
1. A charnel-house! A charnel-house!
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2. But on the edge of town, one elderly lady, a charwoman in the charnel ground,
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Examples of use of Charnel
1. Brown is Blairs spirit of Labour past, old misery guts, a charnel house of past resentments.
2. Six deafening explosions went off almost simultaneously, turning the school into a charnel house.
3. The first world war turned Europe into a charnel house triggering, among other things, a wave of antisemitism that swept away his family‘s business and position.
4. I asked what had happened to the charnel–house humour of the early films, which treat death as an existential joke or a necrophiliac pleasure.
5. They were French–educated like the group‘s late charismatic leader Pol Pot, whose extremist policies turned the country into a virtual charnel house.