ossuary

[ osh-oo-er-ee, os- ]

/ ˈɒʃ uˌɛr i, ˈɒs- /

a place or receptacle for the bones of the dead.

Also ossuarium.

Origin of ossuary

1650–60; < Late Latin ossuārium, variant of ossārium, equivalent to oss- (stem of os) bone + -ārium -ary

ossify, ossining, osso bucco, ossobuco, ossuarium, ossuary, ost, oste-, osteal, ostealgia, ostectomy

The French cemetery at Notre Dame de Lorette has 20,000 named graves and an ossuary with 20,000 unknown dead.

Geoff Dyer's 'The Missing of the Somme' Reconsidered |Louisa Thomas |November 11, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
After a time the body is taken up, the bones cleaned, and deposited in an ossuary called the Quiogozon.

A further contribution to the study of the mortuary customs of the North American Indians |H. C. Yarrow
Bonaparte stopped near the Ossuary, and desired to be shown the spot where the battle of Morat was fought.

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete |Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Ossuary, os′ū-ar-i, n. a place where the bones of the dead are deposited: a charnel-house.

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

I love to go to his ossuary of dead transactions, as I would visit the catacombs of Rome or Paris.

The Poet at the Breakfast Table |Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The Magdalenians have passed through this ossuary and have drawn out all the canine teeth to make ornaments of them.

Men of the Old Stone Age |Henry Fairfield Osborn

ossuary

/ (ˈɒsjʊərɪ) /

any container for the burial of human bones, such as an urn or vault

C17: from Late Latin ossuārium, from Latin os bone