charnel是什么意思？

charnel

英['tʃɑ:nəl] 美['tʃɑnəl]

• n. 藏骸所，停尸房；
• adj. 似停尸房的，恐怖的，阴森的；

例句

• At Simonopetra [ Monastery ] monks pile the bones of brothers in a charnel house. 在这所修道院中,僧侣们把他们教友的遗骸累积在专门的存放遗骸的房子里.
• Vowed Charnel, who traveled everyplace With her slippered foot in a velvet case. 查耐尔如此发誓,他到处游走带着装在天鹅绒盒子里的她穿着拖鞋的脚.

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited
• Adjective
  1. gruesomely indicative of death or the dead;
  "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones""ghastly shrieks""the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs"