charnel house 藏尸所
- At Simonopetra[ Monastery] monks pile the bones of brothers in a charnel house.
在这所修道院中,僧侣们把他们教友的遗骸累积在专门的存放遗骸的房子里。
charnel house[ noun ]
a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited
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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.