morthouse

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A specialised secure building usually located in a churchyard where bodies were temporarily interred before a formal funeral took place.
    — That the bodies of all persons dying in these towns, and, if need be, in all other towns, and also in country parishes, unclaimable by immediate relatives, or whose relatives decline to defray the expenses of interment, shall be conveyed to a morthouse appointed in the said towns for their reception.

词形变化

morthouses plural mort house alternative mort-house alternative

词源

From mort (“death”) + house. Compare mort bell, mort cloth, mort stone.
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