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n. A vault with niches for urns containing ashes of the dead.

n. One of the niches in such a vault.

n. A dovecote.

n. A pigeonhole in a dovecote.

n. a dovecote; one of the pigeonholes in a dovecote

n. a large, sometimes architecturally impressive building for housing a large colony of pigeons, particularly those of ancien regime France.

n. a building, a vault or some similar place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns containing cremated remains, or a niche in such a place

n. A dovecote or pigeon house.

n. A sepulchral chamber with niches for holding cinerary urns.

n. . A dovecote; a pigeon-house. Also columbary.

n. In Roman antiquity, a place of sepulture for the ashes of the dead, consisting of arched and square-headed recesses formed in walls, in which the cinerary urns were deposited: so named from the resemblance between these recesses and those formed in a dove-cote for the doves to build their nests in.

n. In architecture, a hole left in a wall for the insertion of the end of a beam. Also called putlog-hole.

n. Eccles., the columba or dove-shaped pyx. See columba, 3.

n. a birdhouse for pigeons

n. a niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead

n. a sepulchral vault or other structure having recesses in the walls to receive cinerary urns

"The funerary vault, or Monumentum Liviae, contained the cremated remains of more than a thousand Roman slaves and freedmen, their ashes packed in row upon row of ollae burial jars stacked in tiny niches around the vault, like pigeonholes; hence the name columbarium, meaning “dovecote.”"

birdhouse    niche    recess    vault    burial vault   

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