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Word: columbarium (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


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Noun:

  • a dovecote; one of the pigeonholes in a dovecote
  • a large, sometimes architecturally impressive building for housing a large colony of pigeons, particularly those of ''ancien regime'' France.
  • by extension a building, a vault or some similar place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns containing cremated remains, or a niche in such a place

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