Morgue Definition

môrg
noun
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.
Webster's New World
The collection of back numbers, photographs, clippings, etc. kept in the office of a newspaper, magazine, etc.
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morgue
Plural:
morgues

Origin of Morgue

  • French from la Morgue building in Paris used as a morgue probably from morgue haughty manner from Old French morguer to look at solemnly from Vulgar Latin murricāre to make a face from murrum muzzle

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Borrowing 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.

    From Wiktionary

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