Charnel (noun)
char-nel
A building or vault in which corpses or bones are piled.
Late Middle English: from Old French, from medieval Latin carnale, neuter (used as a noun) of carnalis ‘relating to flesh’ (see carnal).
Example sentences
“Europe in the immediate post-war period had become a charnel house.”
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