ossuary

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Those concepts interlace in his ossuary, enlivened when he plays his tenderly kept records, remnants of human joy all but lost to a Rage pestilence.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2026

Southern California has always been an ossuary of failed publications done in by apathetic readership, clueless owners or a combination of both.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2024

He was buried in a specially designed crypt in the cathedral which he commissioned that will be the resting place of all future archbishops after the remains of their predecessors are transferred to an ossuary.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 12, 2022

His guide, a young monk, led him down into the ossuary — “room after room of bones, of every monk who had served at St. Catherine’s.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 22, 2018

Ossā′rium, an ossuary; Oss′ēin, the organic basis of bone; Oss′elet, a hard substance growing on the inside of a horse's knee; Oss′icle, a small bone.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various