charnel house
charnel house · charnel houses
Beinhaus, Karner, Ossuarium
A vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are storedA vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored.
Meaning
1 sensesA vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored.
Beinhaus, Karner, Ossuarium
a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited
Translations
3 languagesDeutsch
By meaning 1
vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored:
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