noun

1. a place where the bodies of unknown dead persons or those dead of unknown causes are kept to be examined, identified, etc. before burial or cremation
2. ☆

   Etymology: so named in ref. to the dead news it contains

   the collection of back numbers, photographs, clippings, etc. kept in the office of a newspaper, magazine, etc.

Etymology: Fr, morgue, earlier, identification room of a prison: orig., “haughty air” < dial. morre, snout: see moraine