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- noun Plural form of
columbarium .
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The remains of the dead are sent to be cremated and placed in multistory depositories, called columbaria, that look very much like the government apartment blocks where many of them had lived before their interludes underground.
NYT > Home Page By SETH MYDANS 2010
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The grounds are primarily for the use of the proprietors, columbaria niche owners, mausoleum crypt owners and the families and friends of the deceased.
"...stains on the carpet and stains on the scenery..." greygirlbeast 2008
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A not-so-little forest of columbaria bobbing about in the future ice-free waters of an auroral Arctic.
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Residing here for a couple of years but rarely mentioned is Scabiosa columbaria ‘Butterfly Blue’.
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A not-so-little forest of columbaria bobbing about in the future ice-free waters of an auroral Arctic.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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They are unable to compensate them, but they did offer them spaces in the linguta, repositories where the ashes of the dead are kept columbaria, I think they are called.
Archive 2008-10-01 Michael Turton 2008
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They are unable to compensate them, but they did offer them spaces in the linguta, repositories where the ashes of the dead are kept columbaria, I think they are called.
Archive 2008-08-01 Michael Turton 2008
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A “religious assembly” use is defined as “an establishment for religious worship and other religious ceremonies, including religious education, rectories and parsonages, offices, social services, columbaria, and community programs Section 1401-01-R7.”
CityLink FINALLY Speaks Nathaniel Livingston 2006
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Close to the cedar, above catacombs and columbaria, tall, ugly, and individual, it looked like an apex of the competitive system.
To Let 2004
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Archaeologists under the direction of Paola Miniero of the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Napoli have excavated two first-fourth-century A.D. columbaria (underground chambers with burial urns in niches), containing the remains of about seventy Roman sailors, as well as inscriptions that tell us about their lives.
hernesheir commented on the word columbaria
Plural of columbarium.
January 11, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word columbaria
"Dovecots, or columbaria, were widespread, providing a rich source of winter meat..."
--Kate Colquhoun, Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking (NY: Bloomsbury, 2007), 20
January 6, 2017