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abattoir
Part of speech: NounA building in which animals are slaughtered and their meat prepared for use.
Usage examples "abattoir":- He explained about the abattoir company's offer. - "A Canadian Bankclerk", J. P. Buschlen.
- This is hardly arctic weather, and our abattoir don't include a cold- storage plant. - "Into the Primitive", Robert Ames Bennet.
- The Pantheon had become a lupanar of divinities that presided over birth, and whose rites were obscene; an abattoir of gods that presided over death, and whose worship was gore. - "Imperial Purple", Edgar Saltus.