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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]