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Charnel Place Good N House  A Human Remains

Word charnel
Definition n. (often charnel house) A place where human remains are stored; transformatively, a place associated with mass violent death.
Sentence Dan Berrigan wrote a "Meditation" at the time of the Catonsville incident: Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house.
Source A People's History of the United States

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