literaryMX a place where the bodies and bones of dead people are stored 存骸所;尸骨堂;停尸间
Examples from the Corpus
charnel house• Out of the gloomemerge the later paintings, charnel housevisions of desolation.• In the charnel house the hospital had become, Minnie died too.• Athelstan caught a glimpse of the two lepers, shrouded in their hoods near the charnel house.
Origincharnel house
(1500-1600)Frenchcharnel, from Medieval Latincarnale, from Late Latincarnalis; → CARNAL