ossuaries
- plural of ossuary.
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
Two days later, the Vatican said ossuaries had been found under the pavement of an area inside the Pontifical Teutonic College, covered by a manhole, and would be opened this weekend.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2019
On Saturday, experts will examine two ossuaries - small chambers where dead are buried - found in the first search.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2019
Though the earth had confounded the ashes of these ossuaries, yet the bones were so smartly burnt, that some thin plates of brass were found half melted among them.
From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Browne, Thomas, Sir
