charnel house
noun
1.
a house or place in which the bodies or bones of the dead are deposited.
Origin
1550-60
Examples from the web for
charnel house
The country is still poor and ill-governed, but it is no longer a
charnel house
, so it has a chance.
British Dictionary definitions for
charnel house
charnel house
noun
1.
(esp formerly) a building or vault where corpses or bones are deposited