Triclinium

Word TRICLINIUM
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Hyphenation tri clin i um
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Definitions and meanings of "Triclinium"

What do we mean by triclinium?

A couch facing three sides of a rectangular table, used by the ancient Greeks, Etruscans, and Romans for reclining at meals. noun

A room containing such a couch or couches; a dining room. noun

Among the Romans, the dining-room where guests were received, furnished with three couches, which occupied three sides of the dinner-table, the fourth side being left open for the free ingress and egress of servants. noun

A couch for reclining at meals, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts. noun

A dining room furnished with such a triple couch. noun

A couch for reclining at mealtimes, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts. noun

A dining room furnished with such a triple couch. noun

A dining room (especially a dining room containing a dining table with couches along three sides) noun

A dining table with couches along three sides in ancient Rome noun

A couch for reclining at mealtimes, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts.

A dining room furnished with such a triple couch.

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The word "triclinium" in example sentences

To the right of the triclinium is a very elegant chamber, and another, which you may call either a very large chamber (_cubiculum_), or moderate-sized eating-room (_cœnatio_), which commands a full prospect both of the sun and sea. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Napoli e Pompei/Fotografica Foglia\ A bronze brazier Off the atrium, a nearly full complement of burnt-sienna and ocher walls was discovered in the triclinium , or dining room, of a country villa near Castellammare di Stabia; their frescoed panels portray Neptune carrying Amymone away on a galloping stallion, Dionysus and Ceres reclining on a seahorse skimming blue waters and a triumphal Dionysian procession led by a satyr. ❋ Judy Fayard (2011)

She may even have been responsible for commissioning the unique design and decoration of the triclinium.66 ❋ Annelise Freisenbruch (2010)

As we were quickly escorted through the frescoed rooms, we stopped in the triclinium – the dining room which had once seen so many famous faces smiling, laughing, even crying for mercy. ❋ Elizabeth Kerri Mahon (2009)

This villa has an atrium, a courtyard containing a pool, a triclinium with views of the Bay of Naples, a colonnaded courtyard, and a private bath complex. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Using Vitruvius, panelists will discuss the domus and insula of ancient Rome, then move to a discussion of the triclinium and Roman dining customs based on Martial. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Also included in the exhibition are unusual stucco decorations from the Villa Petraro, an estate with a working farm, and the triclinium, or dining room, from the nearby Villa Carmiano. ❋ Unknown (2004)

In large houses, a second large room with three or more apses, forming the third type of representative space, was sometimes located next to this triclinium. ❋ Unknown (2003)

We've discovered in the triclinium room that the partition wall never existed and that the original house already occupied the space that would later become service quarters. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Elsewhere, water features were created in the inn, as in the triclinium space, but they used cleverly managed rainwater to create their effects. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Adjacent to the west side of the main hall was a room that functioned as a triclinium, or banqueting hall, for ceremonial meals and a triangular space most likely used as a kitchen. ❋ Unknown (1998)

The triclinium was added to the synagogue hall some years later. ❋ Unknown (1998)

Having been told no fuss, Aurelia didn't mention the coming change in her status to her daughter-in-law, who, when she went to go to her own little room, found herself detained by Caesar in a suddenly empty triclinium. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)

She absented herself from the triclinium as soon as her husband gave her permission to retire, burning with an anger she had most carefully concealed. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)

In the triclinium Bastia had been forgotten the moment she departed for her own quarters. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)

Caesar took great pleasure in reporting this to his uncle over dinner in his own triclinium. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)

The steward emerged from the triclinium to find the son of his dead master being comforted by a man who shone like Apollo. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1991)

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