char·nel /ˈʧɑrnḷ/
納骨堂的;陰森森的
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.
Char·nel, n. A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery.
In their proud charnel of Thermopylæ. --Byron.
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charnel
adj : gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell
came from the chest filled with dead men's bones";
"ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the
catacombs" [syn: ghastly, sepulchral]
n : a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited
[syn: charnel house]