1) Any one of these recesses 2) Cinerarium 3) Columbary 4) Death custom 5) Niche 6) Recess
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1) Cinerarium
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[gastropod] Columbarium is a genus of deepwater sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Turbinellidae, the pagoda shells. The shells of most species in this family have a long siphonal canal and a noticeable peripheral keel. Species within the genus Columbarium include: Synonyms: ...
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a structure of vaults lined with recesses
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• (n.) A dovecote or pigeon house. • (n.) A sepulchral chamber with niches for holding cinerary urns.
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sepulchral building containing many small niches for cinerary urns. The term is derived from the Latin columba (`dove,` or `pigeon`), and it ... [1 related articles]
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In medieval churches, the baldachin (canopy over an altar) beneath which was suspended the hanging pyx (container for sacramental wafers). The latter was frequently in the form of a dove. ...
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Roman sepulchral chamber. Columbaria were so called because they resembled large dovecotes. They were usually rectangular structures built around open courtyards and lined with niches in which urns...
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A dovecote. Also used to describe a sepulchral chamber containing cremation urns.
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Col`um·ba'ri·um noun ;
plural Latin
Columbaria [ Latin See
Columbary .]
(Rom. Antiq.) (a) A dovecote or pigeon house.
(b) A sepulchral chamber with niches for holding cinerary urns.
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In Roman antiquities, a columbarium was a place of sepulchre for the ashes of the dead after the custom of burning the dead had been introduced. Columbaria consisted of arched and square-headed recesses formed in walls in which the cinerary urns were deposited, and were so named from the resemblance between these recesses and those formed for the d...
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columbarium (s), columbaria (pl) 1. From Latin, columba, dove (pigeon); then it came to mean 'a sepurchre for urns' and a 'dovecote'. 2. Also known as a columbary, a vault with nitches for urns containing ashes of the dead; a niche in such a vault. 3. A dovecote, or a pigeonhole in a dovecote (or dovecot), is a roost for domesticated pigeons.
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noun a niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead
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noun a sepulchral vault or other structure having recesses in the walls to receive cinerary urns
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a sepulchral vault or other structure with recesses in the walls to receive the ashes of the dead. · any one of these recesses. · columbary.
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