towers of silence

A form 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.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of tower of silence
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