morgue

nomcourant dans les dialogues

Royaume-Uni//mɔːɡ//
États-Unis//moɹɡ//
États-Unis/[mo̞ɹɡ]/
//mɔː(ɹ)ɡ//

A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.

nom

1
archaïqueA 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.
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
vieilliThe 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.

Étymologie

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.

Formes

pluriel: morgues

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morgue · 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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