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tricliniums

tricliniums is the plural of triclinium.

Meaning of triclinium

Noun

triclinium (plural tricliniums or triclinia)

  1. (Ancient-Rome) A couch for reclining at mealtimes, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts.
    • Seated on the triclinium in the midst is a middle-aged man, with a high and noble brow; the fine aquiline nose, so patrician, as if their eagle had set his own seal on his warlike race;...1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 259
  2. (Ancient-Rome) A dining room furnished with such a triple couch.
    • The manor house seemed still as the night itself. Morgan la Blanche had taken herself to a couch in the triclinium, choosing it rather than one of the cubicles leading from the atrium.1903, Warwick Deeping, Uther and Igraine, New York, N.Y.: The Outlook Company

Questions about tricliniums

What is tricliniums the plural of?
Tricliniums is the plural of triclinium.

Words near tricliniums in the dictionary

  1. triclinia
  2. triclinial
  3. tricliniary
  4. triclinic
  5. triclinium
  6. tricliniums
  7. triclinohedric
  8. triclocarban
  9. triclofos
  10. triclonide
  11. triclops

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