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Definition of the day : « ossuary »
- noun urn
- The Magdalenians have passed through this ossuary and have drawn out all the canine teeth to make ornaments of them.
- Extract from : « Men of the Old Stone Age » by Henry Fairfield Osborn
- Ossuary, os′ū-ar-i, n. a place where the bones of the dead are deposited: a charnel-house.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) » by Various
- I love to go to his ossuary of dead transactions, as I would visit the catacombs of Rome or Paris.
- Extract from : « The Poet at the Breakfast Table » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- After a time the body is taken up, the bones cleaned, and deposited in an ossuary called the Quiogozon.
- Extract from : « A further contribution to the study of the mortuary customs of the North American Indians » by H. C. Yarrow
- Bonaparte stopped near the Ossuary, and desired to be shown the spot where the battle of Morat was fought.
- Extract from : « Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete » by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne