morgue

Significado (Inglés)

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

Frecuencia

C1
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/mɔːɡ/
Etimología (Inglés)

Borrowed from French morgue. The second sense developed from the first, via "a prison examination room", probably with reference to the haughty attitude of the jailers.

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