"morthouse" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: morthouses [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} morthouse (plural morthouses)
  1. A specialised secure building usually located in a churchyard where bodies were temporarily interred before a formal funeral took place.
    Sense id: en-morthouse-en-noun-5Jq6x0iB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1989, Dane Love, Scottish Kirkyards, London: Robert Hale, →ISBN, page 154:",
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          "ref": "2010, “Other titles published by The History Press”, in David Kinnaird, Haunted Stirling, The History Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "From burial grounds in the heart of Glasgow to quiet country graveyards in Aberdeenshire, this book takes you to every cemetery ever raided, and reveals where you can find extant pieces of anti-resurrectionist graveyard furniture, from mortsafes, coffin cages and underground vaults to watchtowers and morthouses.",
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