charnier
French → English
noun//ʃaʁ.nje//
(history) Mass grave: a place where a large number of human remains are buried, often after war.
Les archéologues ont découvert un charnier datant de l'épidémie de peste noire.
(English) Archaeologists discovered a mass grave dating from the Black Death epidemic.
La découverte d'un charnier près du village a révélé l'ampleur du massacre.
(English) The discovery of a mass grave near the village revealed the scale of the massacre.
Entry ID: fr:en:charnier · Source: refined · Type: vocabulary