morgue
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Definition of morgue
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(archaic)A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.
“They being newcomers, free from the western morgue so soon caught by Oriental Europeans, were particularly civil to me, even wishing to mix me a strong draught; but I was not so fortunate with all on board.”
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noun
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(archaic)A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.
“They being newcomers, free from the western morgue so soon caught by Oriental Europeans, were particularly civil to me, even wishing to mix me a strong draught; but I was not so fortunate with all on board.”
- A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.
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(archaic)The archive and background information division of a newspaper.
“Librarian Talks of Newspaper Morgue”
“Shand: get down to the Record and the Trib. See what they've got on Elliot in their morgues.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
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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