columbaria
- plural of columbarium.
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Small armies of landscapers tend to lush grass and rolling hills, where private roads with names like “Memory Lane” and “Baby Land” lead upward past maximalist mausoleums, columbaria and replica Renaissance statuary.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2023
Last year the cemetery opened a new 27-acre section capable of holding about 27,000 remains in specially built close-packed, pre-dug graves and a new niche wall and columbaria.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 25, 2019
The 16,000 spaces in the new niche wall and columbaria are waiting.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2018
Singapore prefers columbaria, in which urns of cremated remains are stored in cavities on a wall.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2017
There were niches cut out of the walls, in which the urns were placed: these, from their resemblance to the niche of a pigeon-house, were called columbaria.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 273, September 15, 1827 by Various
