| 词汇 | charnel-house |
| 释义 | charnel house noun[ C ] old useuk /ˈtʃɑː.nəl ˌhaʊs/ us /ˈtʃɑːr.nəl ˌhaʊs/ a building where the bodies of dead people are kept尸骨存放处 Places where bodies are buried or cremated burial ground catacomb cemetery churchyard columbarium crematorium crematory crypt grave graveside graveyard mausoleum necropolis ossuary pyre resting place sepulchre the pyramidsphrase tomb vault By Monday the city reeked with the smell of a charnel house and pestilence was in the air. Indians always removed their dead, yet seemingly this place was a perfect charnel house, heaped with slain. On the evening after a frightful battle, they were all three in the charnel house where the dead bodies are brought. The perfume of them sickened Anna, as the odor of a charnel house might have done. The summit stopped being a battle field to become a charnel house. Examples of charnel housecharnel house There is a finality about the charnelhouse which does not bear thinking about. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The next war, of which people are talking so lightly and for which governments are so blindly preparing, will leave civilisation a smoking ruin and a putrefying charnelhouse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are committed by people who are trapped in a unique situation—a once-in-a-lifetime situation of an emotional charnelhouse—that causes them to take this particular action. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A charnelhouse is built in memory of the event. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. After the bodies dried away, the charnelhouse priest would end up with indivudal sets of cleaned bones. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. One was called a charnelhouse boiling wholesale in vaseline by an early 20th-century visitor. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The church's charnelhouse was rebuilt in 1793 into a schoolhouse. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Beside the church is found a former two-storey charnelhouse. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He speculated that the area they dug into was once a charnelhouse. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A crypt is situated beneath the chancel, but is not thought to have ever been used as a charnelhouse. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The charnelhouse would then be destroyed, often by fire. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Beneath the chancel was a vaulted undercroft, which was probably used as a charnelhouse. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. After this, the remains would be exhumed and moved to an ossuary or charnelhouse, thereby allowing the original burial place to be reused. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In the same year as the charnelhouse was added, the churchyard wall was also finished. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Some alterations to the church were made, such as the building of a new bell tower over the old charnelhouse of the cemetery. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. See all examples of charnel house These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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