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noun
Synonym of tower of silence (“a low, cylindrical, open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate from exposure and consumption by carrion birds such as vultures, the remaining bones being kept in an ossuary”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: Zoroastrianism, lifestyle, religion
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Synonyms: tower of silence
Antonyms: none provided
History
Borrowed from Persian دخمه (daxme).
