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noun

Morgue n.

A place where the bodies of dead persons are kept, until they are identified, or claimed by their friends; a deadhouse.

(Newspapers) A room containing reference files of older material in a newspaper office; also, the material contained in such a room.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Morgue" Quotes from Famous Books

... its smiling face, and as its profile showed more distinctly and it slowly went round from left to right she felt perfectly happy. Claude, however, was indignant, and, shaking Cadine, he asked her what she was doing in front of "that abomination, that corpse-like hussy picked up at the Morgue!" He flew into a temper with the "dummy's" cadaverous face and shoulders, that disfigurement of the beautiful, and remarked that artists painted nothing but that unreal type of woman nowadays. ...

— The Fat and the Thin • Emile Zola

... wish I was home. Was you ever in a country town on a New Year's Day? Say, list. Sixty laughs in sixty minutes looks like a busy day at the morgue compared to the laughs they hand out in one of those one-night stand dumps. The Sons of Temperance all go out and get a bun on ad lib. and everybody inhales good cheer. I sang in the choir. Honest I did, but ...

— The Sorrows of a Show Girl • Kenneth McGaffey

... possible that on the discovery of a dead body in a Paris train, the matter would at once be handed over to the Paris police; that would mean, in this case, that a body so found would be conveyed to the Morgue. ...

— The Uttermost Farthing • Marie Belloc Lowndes

... before had a painter so charnally envisaged divinity nor so brutally dipped his brush into the wounds and running sores and bleeding nail holes of the Saviour. Gruenewald had passed all measure. He was the most uncompromising of realists, but his morgue Redeemer, his sewer Deity, let the observer know that realism could be truly transcendent. A divine light played about that ulcerated head, a superhuman expression illuminated the fermenting skin of the epileptic features. This crucified corpse was a very God, and, without aureole, without ...

— La-bas • J. K. Huysmans

... would look it up in the Star's morgue. Jack said he would meet me there at three o'clock; in the meantime he would see what he could ...

— The Flying Saucers are Real • Donald Keyhoe

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