Charnel house

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A charnel house is a vault or building where human skeletal remains are temporarily stored until full decomposition of flesh. They are often built near churches for depositing bones that are unearthed while digging graves. The term can also be used more generally as a description of a place filled with death and destruction. The term is borrowed from Middle French charnel, from Late Latin carnāle ("graveyard"), from Latin carnālis ("of the flesh").

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