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charnel house

In architecture, a place for the storage of bones thrown up in digging. It is sometimes a separate building, but often a part of the crypt of a church.



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An Antiquated Ghost that Haunts / The Charnel-Houses of the Antients / And calls the Dead
Peiresc's Europe: Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century. ... by Reeves, Eileen / Renaissance Quarterly
In his vision for the 'City of Tomorrow' he wrote, 'Our World, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.
HEROISM versus EMPIRICISM by Gregory, Robert / The Architectural Review
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