COLUMBARIUM (Lat. columba, a dove)

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COLUMBARIUM (Lat. columba, a dove) , a pigeon-

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic
languages
- LANGUAGES
, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

. The

term

TERM

is applied in architecture to those sepulchral chambers in and near Rome, the walls of which were sunk with small niches (columbaria) to receive the cinerary urns. Vitruvius (iv. 2) employs the

term

TERM

to signify the holes made in a

wall

WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the
original
- ORIGINAL
O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
WALL,
RICHARD
- RICHARD
- RICHARD (d. 1184)
- MARIE
  - MARIE
  _BENJAMI.html">RICHARD, FRANCOIS
  MARIE
  - MARIE
  BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
- RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
- RICHARD, ST
(1694-1778)

to receive the ends of the timbers of a

floor

FLOOR (from O. Eng. flor, a word common to many Teutonic
languages
- LANGUAGES
, cf. Dutch vloer, and Ger. Flur, a
field
, in the feminine, and a floor, masculine)

or roof.

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