Crossword clues for columbarium
columbarium
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Columbarium \Col`um*ba"ri*um\, n.; pl. L. Columbaria [L. See Columbary.] (Rom. Antiq.)
A dovecote or pigeon house.
A sepulchral chamber with niches for holding cinerary urns.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"subterranean sepulchre in ancient Roman places with niches for urns holding remains," neuter of Latin columbarius, "dove-cote" (so called from resemblance), literally "pertaining to doves;" from columba "dove." Literal sense of "dove-cote" is attested in English from 1881.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A large, sometimes architecturally impressive building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves, particularly those of ''ancien regime'' France; a dovecote. 2 A pigeonhole in such a dovecote. 3 (context by extension English) A building, a vault or a similar place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns containing cremated remains 4 A niche in such a building for housing urns.
WordNet
n. a niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead [syn: cinerarium]
a sepulchral vault or other structure having recesses in the walls to receive cinerary urns
[also: columbaria (pl)]
Wikipedia
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.
Usage examples of "columbarium".
Around him, and in groups, according to their fancy, lying in their mantles, or with their backs against a sort of stone bench, which went all round the columbarium, were to be seen twenty brigands or more, each having his carbine within reach.
When the count thought Franz had gazed sufficiently on this picturesque tableau, he raised his finger to his lips, to warn him to be silent, and, ascending the three steps which led to the corridor of the columbarium, entered the chamber by the middle arcade, and advanced towards Vampa, who was so intent on the book before him that he did not hear the noise of his footsteps.
Then, by the gleam of a lamp, similar to that which lighted the columbarium, Albert was to be seen wrapped up in a cloak which one of the bandits had lent him, lying in a corner in profound slumber.
A columbarium, or hatchery of some sort, dark and reeking of decay, putrefaction and gangrene-a birthing center for monsters.
Then, he left to make sure that the Crematorium was in good working order and that the Columbarium was swept free of desert dust.