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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mortuary /ˈmɔːtjʊəri, -tʃʊ-/

▶noun (pl. mortuaries) a room or building in which dead bodies are kept until burial or cremation. ▶adjective relating to burial or tombs.

– origin ME (denoting a gift claimed by a parish priest from a deceased person's estate): from L. mortuarius, from mortuus ‘dead’.

'mortuary' also found in these Oxford entries:

chapel of rest - morgue - slab

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