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Word of the Day – Ossuary

By April 29, 2025Word of the Day

Ossuary (noun)

osh-oo-er-ee

A place or receptacle for the bones of the dead.

1650–60; < Late Latin ossuārium, variant of ossārium, equivalent to oss- (stem of os ) bone + -ārium -ary

Example sentences

“The ossuary was the creepiest places we visited in the whole of Faro.”

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