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Mortuary

noun

(pl. mortuaries)

A building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation. Synonyms: dead room, morgue.

adjective

Of or relating to or characteristic of death.

Of or relating to a funeral.

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"Mortuary" Quotes from Famous Books

... did NOT stand on his head or call out a confederate youth from a closet, as the woman might have expected. To the left was a green baize door, outlined with brass-studded rivets like a cheerful coffin-lid, and bearing the mortuary inscription, "Private." This he pushed open, and entered the ...

— A Ward of the Golden Gate • Bret Harte

... I went several times to the anatomy theatre and saw the bones there; I have even been in the mortuary. Am I not in ...

— The Bishop and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov

... knees and clutched at me and asked me if I 'd drawn out all the money and had it safe. Just to humor him, I said I had. He tried to say something after that, but it was n't much use. The first thing we knew he 'd passed out. That's where Harry is now—took him over to the mortuary. There isn't anybody ...

— The Cross-Cut • Courtney Ryley Cooper

... walls slope at an angle of seventy-five or eighty degrees externally, but in the interior are perpendicular. The roof is composed of large flat stones. Strictly speaking, the chambers are not actual tombs, but mortuary chapels. The embalmed body of the deceased, encased in its wooden coffin (Gen. 1. 26), was not deposited in the chamber, but in an excavation under one of the walls, which was carefully closed up after the coffin ...

— Ancient Egypt • George Rawlinson

... from that moment ignored my existence. The coffin was unlashed and lowered from the leading coach; the clergyman at the gate began to recite the sacred office, and the funeral train, reduced to decorum by his voice, followed him as he turned, and trooped along the path towards the mortuary chapel. I moved with the crowd to its porch, drew aside to make way for a lady in rouge and sprigged muslin, and slipped behind the chapel wall. The far end of it hid me from the view of the coaches, and from it a pretty direct path led to ...

— The Adventures of Harry Revel • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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