(plural for columbaria) A vault containing places to put urns. The urns contain the dead.
For two years Cloe has been crying in my arms during hug time, and now she's dead, dead in the ground, dead in an urn, mausoleum, columbarium. -"Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk
a shotgun shooting sport where one individual (also called the columbaire) hand throws the live birds into the air, over a rope, which is targeted by the shooter situated adjacent to him.