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morgue

/mɔːɡ/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.
  2. A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.
  3. The archive and background information division of a newspaper.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

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