'charnel' in Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories | Bookmarker

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(noun) a building or chamber in which bodies or bones are deposited

But as a matter of fact there was still the exploding lamp, the mother in her charnel wrappings, the staunch, bereft child.

—p.114 Family Furnishings (87) by Alice Munro

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