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A quiet place where the dead are kept, identified, and prepared for what comes next.
means A place where dead bodies are kept and identified before burial or autopsy.
from From French 'morgue,' which originally meant a haughty, staring look — it was the name given to a room at the Paris morgue where officials would stare at corpses to identify them, and the stare-name stuck to the room itself. The French word's deeper roots trace to a verb meaning to look at solemnly or gravely.
- temperature
- kept around 36 fahrenheit to slow decay
- origin
- french word for a stare, a staring place
- original use
- paris morgue let public view bodies for id
- newsroom slang
- journalists call their archive the morgue too