Word | charnel |
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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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