Noun
- 1. dovecote, columbarium, columbary, birdhouse
- usage: a birdhouse for pigeons
- 2. columbarium, cinerarium, recess, niche
- usage: a niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead
- 3. columbarium, vault, burial vault
- usage: a sepulchral vault or other structure having recesses in the walls to receive cinerary urns
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