Noun:

இறந்தோர் எலும்புகளை வைத்திருக்கும் பெட்டகம்,

ossuaries's Usage Examples:

496) burial was by inhumation: investigation, however, of the cemeteries shows that the bodies were burned and the ashes placed in ossuaries; practically no objects were found in the urns.

On the other hand, the ossuaries of the Villanova type, while they occur as far south as Veii and Caere, have never so far been found on the left bank of the Tiber, in Latium proper (see L.

, though cremation continues, the tombs are much poorer, the ossuaries being of badly baked rough clay, and show traces of Gallic influence, and characteristics of the La-Tene civilization.

Synonyms:

receptacle,

Antonyms:

out-basket, in-basket,