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A.Word.A.Day--ossuary ossuary (OSH-oo-eh-ree) noun, plural ossuaries A place or container for depositing the bones of the dead. Also, ossuarium. [Late Latin ossuarium, from neuter of Latin, ossuarius, of bones, from Old Latin ossua, plural of oss-, os, bone.] "The bones of nearly 800 more were found in three ossuaries at a nearby village site called Moyaone." Frank D Roylance, Old Bones a Source of Insights, Mystery, The Baltimore Sun, May 2, 1999. This week's theme: words that contain the vowels aeiou once and only once. X-Bonus Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry. -Gustave Flaubert, novelist (1821-80)

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