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morgue
1. n. A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.
2. n. A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation,(now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.
3. n. The archive and background information division of a newspaper.
Kwapil, Joseph F. (2 July 1921) "Librarian Talks of Newspaper Morgue", Fourth Estate.

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Seems they call it the morgue.

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