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noun a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited
adjective gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
originFrom Middle English charnel, from Old French charnel, carnel, from Late Latin carnāle (“graveyard”), from Latin carnālis, or possibly an alteration of Anglo-Norman charner, from Medieval Latin carnārium (“charnel”). Displaced Middle English fleshusse, from Old English flǣsċhūs.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0