whare tūpāpaku

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1. (noun) morgue.

Pau katoa taua pō e kimihia ana, nō te ata rawa kātahi ka kitea i roto i te whare tūpāpaku e takoto ana (TP 5/1912:9). / They searched for him all that night and finally, in the morning, he was found lying in the morgue.

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2. (noun) vault (for the dead).

He mea nehu ki te whare tūpāpaku o ngā Kara kai te taha tonu o te urupā o Mākaraka (TTR 1996:21). / She was buried in the Carroll vault beside the Mākaraka cemetery.

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