ossuary

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ossuary - n., a receptacle, such as an urn or a vault, for holding the bones of the dead.


Late Latin ossuarium, from neuter of Latin ossuarius, of bones, from os, bone. Wikipedia has this to say about ossuaries. Continuing O Boy Week.

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My free-association with ossuary is Hydriotaphia (http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/browne/hydriotaphia.html), which of course doesn't begin with O at all, which means I can never remember the title.

---L.