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morgue

mor·gue

UK/mɔːɡ/ US/moɹɡ/ fairly common slang

noun

1.

a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation

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Origin

Borrowed from French morgue. The second sense developed from the first, via "a prison examination room", probably with reference to the haughty attitude of the jailers.

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