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Definition of Charnel house

Charnel house
Charnel Char"nel, a. [F. charnel carnal, fleshly, fr. L. carnalis. See Carnal.] Containing the bodies of the dead. ``Charnel vaults.' --Milton. Charnel house, a tomb, vault, cemetery, or other place where the bones of the dead are deposited; originally, a place for the bones thrown up when digging new graves in old burial grounds.

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- A charnel house is a vault or building where human skeletal remains are stored. They are often built near churches for depositing bones that are unearthed...
- The Charnel House (French: Le Charnier) is an unfinished 1944–1945 oil and charcoal on canvas painting by Spanish artist Pablo Pic****o, which is purported...
- Look up charnel house in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A charnel house is a facility for storing human remains in skeleton form Charnel House or variation...
- The Charnel House is a 2016 American supernatural horror dark fantasy film directed by Craig Moss and written by Chad Israel and Emanuel Isler. The film...
- for above-ground rectangular charnel houses in the cemetery. The rectangular charnel houses resembled the residential houses of the cities but with steps...
- Charnel Houses of Europe: The Shoah is a supplement published by the Black Dog imprint of White Wolf Publishing in March–April 1997 for the horror role-playing...
- The Charnel House Trilogy is a 2015 adventure game developed by Owl Cave and published by Mastertronic Group. It comprises three connected stories that...
- years, and then disinterred, cleaned and gathered into the monastery's charnel house. If there is reason to believe that the departed is a saint, the remains...
- size", and compared it unfavorably to the "magnificently lyrical" The Charnel House (1944–1948), a later antiwar painting by Pic****o. Among the painting's...
- Empire, Willis Stryker / Diamondback in Luke Cage, and his role in The Charnel House (2016). Erik LaRay Harvey was drawn into acting when he saw a theatrical...