morgue
/mɔːɡ//mɔɹɡ/
noun
- 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.
“Kwapil, Joseph F. (2 July 1921) "Librarian Talks of Newspaper Morgue", Fourth Estate page 5.”
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