columbarium

noun

a sepulchral vault or other structure having recesses in the walls to receive cinerary urns

a niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead

a birdhouse for pigeons

Roots

columbacolumb- · Latin · dove arium-arium · Latin · place for

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