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- noun Plural form of
columbarium .
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Examples
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Beyond their claims, the memorial parks, columbariums, homes of eternal rest and elysian lawns offered choice lots -- with a special discount on caskets -- on the installmentplan.
Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940
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We had soon crossed the bay, and landing on a bushy coast, near some fragments of a temple which they say was raised to Hercules, advanced into the country by narrow tracks covered with moss and strewed with shining pebbles; to the right and left, broad masses of luxuriant foliage, chestnut, bay, and ilex, that shelter the ruins of columbariums and sepulchral chambers, where the dead sleep snug amongst rampant herbage.
Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents Beckford, William 1891
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We had soon crossed the bay, and landing on a bushy coast, near some fragments of a temple which they say was raised to Hercules, advanced into the country by narrow tracks covered with moss and strewed with shining pebbles; to the right and left, broad masses of luxuriant foliage, chestnut, bay, and ilex, that shelter the ruins of columbariums and sepulchral chambers, where the dead sleep snug amongst rampant herbage.
Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents William Beckford 1801
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Regino is president of the Golden Haven Memorial Parks Inc. that is building columbariums in Cebu.
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She found out that the scammers had loaded the families onto buses and then driven them around northern Taipei county, pointing to columbariums and saying "yours are here, and your sites are there," etc.
The View from Taiwan Michael Turton 2010
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Most columbariums are dark, eerie places, with floors littered with incense ash and urns piled high to the ceiling in tiny pigeonholes, each adorned with a picture of the deceased.
Reuters: Top News 2010
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Most columbariums are dark, eerie places, with floors littered with incense ash and urns piled high to the ceiling in tiny pigeonholes, each adorned with a picture of the deceased.
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No matter how many times we explain to my father in law, no matter how powerful our evidence, no matter who presents it to him, he continues to believe that the storage sites for ashes in local columbariums actually exist and that he will make a killing on their sale once they are sold.
The View from Taiwan Michael Turton 2010
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Most columbariums are dark, eerie places, with floors littered with incense ash and urns piled high to the ceiling in tiny pigeonholes, each adorned with a picture of the deceased.
IOL: News 2010
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A cemetery may include administrative buildings, columbariums and maintenance shops.
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