The Word of the Day comes from "How We Disappeared" by Jing-Jing Lee, longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction.
COLUMBARIUM
A columbarium is a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns, but can also mean the nesting boxes of pigeons. The term comes from the Latin "columba" and, originally, solely referred to compartmentalized housing for doves and pigeons called a dovecote.
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