charnel house

noun

1. a house or place in which the bodies or bones of the dead are deposited.

charnel house

noun

1. (esp formerly) a building or vault where corpses or bones are deposited

Word History and Origins

Origin of charnel house¹

First recorded in 1550–60

Example Sentences

If I think about it for a moment, there are obviously lots of policy implications of Gosnell's baby charnel house.

From The Daily Beast

The factory had indeed become a charnel-house, it being useless for the chiefs to admonish their men to keep under cover.

From Project Gutenberg

Its door an entrance to a living charnel-house, its iron-barred windows but the outlook of hell!

From Project Gutenberg

I was in the pit, the abyss, the human cesspool, the shambles and the charnel-house of our civilization.

From Project Gutenberg

The spectacle now under their eyes was itself sufficiently disagreeable, seeming a very charnel-house.

From Project Gutenberg

The bright world had become a place of skulls, a charnel house, a prison whose iron walls were closing in on him eternally.

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