morgue

A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.

They being newcomers, free from the western morgue so soon caught by Oriental Europeans, were particularly civil to me, even wishing to mix me a strong draught; but I was not so fortunate with all on board.

A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.

The archive and background information division of a newspaper.

Librarian Talks of Newspaper Morgue

Shand: get down to the Record and the Trib. See what they've got on Elliot in their morgues.