Dictionary Entry

charnel

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation[tʃɑːnəl]Used In Literature ↓

A chapel attached to a mortuary.

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Common Phrases

house charnelhouses charnelground charnelgrounds charnel. charnelrose charnelcharnel vastcharnel great

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Poetry examples for “charnel”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

And those, most vile, who dress
The charnel spectre drear
Of utterly dishallow'd nothingness

Charnel, carnal, 471.

Mercedes is a doomed star.
Mercedes is a charnel rose.
Go where gold

What? England that you help, become through you
A green and putrefying charnel, left
Our children ... some of us have children, Pym--

Jet-black and bare, save where with rust
Of mouldy damps and charnel crust
They’re patch’d with purple and green.

All stood together on the deck,
For a charnel-dungeon fitter:
All fix’d on me their stony eyes

Or the nebulous light that lingers
In charnel mould.

Jet-black and bare, save where with rust
Of mouldy damps and charnel crust
They’re patch’d with purple and green.

All stood together on the deck,
For a charnel-dungeon fitter:
All fix’d on me their stony eyes