ossuary
noun
a place or receptacle for the bones of the dead.
ossuaries
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pluralof ossuary.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Lasting art can be mysterious and often misunderstood; this can also be said of ossuaries.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026
His “Ruins of Rome” etchings depict landmarks like the Pantheon and the Castel Sant’Angelo, but its most famous images show rubble-strewn gardens and crumbling bridges, and tricorn-hatted gentlemen wandering through collapsed temples and overgrown ossuaries.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2021
During that search, the two ossuaries were discovered under a trapdoor in the floor of a nearby building.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2019
Those inspections “have so far led to the identification of two ossuaries placed beneath the floor of an area inside the Pontifical Teutonic College,” Gisotti said.
From Fox News ● Jul. 13, 2019
What time the persons of these ossuaries entered the famous nations of the dead, and slept with princes and coun- sellors, might admit a wide solution.
From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Sir Thomas Browne
