plural crematories
Definition of crematory
: a furnace for cremating
also
: a place where the bodies of the dead are cremated : crematorium
… to help families with the most complicated logistics: filing the death certificate, getting the body released from a hospital, transporting it to the crematory or cemetery. — April Dembosky
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The first known use of crematory was in 1876
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