morgue
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
morgue (plural morgues)
- A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.
- 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, Dover 1964, p. 34:
- They being newcomers, free from the western morgue so soon caught by Oriental Europeans, were particularly civil to me, even wishing to mix me a strong draught; but I was not so fortunate with all on board.
- 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, Dover 1964, p. 34:
- A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.
- The archive and background information division of a newspaper.
- Kwapil, Joseph F. (2 July 1921) "Librarian Talks of Newspaper Morgue", Fourth Estate page 5 ↗.
- (place for corpses) See mortuary
- French: morgue
- German: Leichenhaus, Leichenschauhaus
- Italian: obitorio, camera mortuaria
- Portuguese: necrotério m (Brazil), morgue
- Russian: морг
- Spanish: morgue depósito de cadáveres
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