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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典
 charnel house
 藏尸所
From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 Char·nel a.  Containing the bodies of the dead. Charnel vaults.”
 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.
From: WordNet (r) 2.0
 charnel house
      n : a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited
          [syn: charnel]