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mortuary

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mortuary
a building where dead bodies are kept before cremation or burial
morgue, mortuary
A room or building for the holding and/or identification of dead bodies prior to burial or cremation.
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And the four friends quit the room, leaving to Planchet and Fourreau the duty of paying mortuary honors to Brisemont.
The Three Musketeers by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
It seemed to him that the voice of the bishop's, but just now so playful and gay, had become funereal and sad; that the wax lights changed into the tapers of a mortuary chapel, the very glasses of wine into chalices of blood.
The Man in the Iron Mask by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
And, after that, he took them one dark night and left them in the parish mortuary.
Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Dog) by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
 
 
 
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