char·nel house /ˈtʃɑːnl haʊs $ ˈtʃɑːr-/ noun [countableC]
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 gloom emerge the later paintings, charnel house visions 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