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Triclinium   Listen
noun
Triclinium  n.  (pl. triclinia)  (Rom. Antiq.)
(a)
A couch for reclining at meals, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts.
(b)
A dining room furnished with such a triple couch.





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... Cardinals used to dine in public at the Vatican on holy Thursday and good Friday, that they might be spared the trouble of returning to their respective palaces before Tenebrae; and anciently the Pope used to dine with them at the Lateran palace, in the hall called the Triclinium Leonianum[77]. The Pontiff wore on such occasions his cope and mitre, and the Cardinals were habited in sacred vestments with mitres. After dinner a sermon was preached before the Cardinals. Mons. Maggiordomo used to invite on these days prelates, ...
— The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome • Charles Michael Baggs
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... exhort one another. When the Jews opposed themselves to the new creed, congregations met in the houses of the more wealthy. The apartment usually employed for divine purposes is supposed to have been the triclinium, or large dining-room of the richer classes amongst the Greeks and Romans. The want of churches was first experienced when frequent conversions swelled congregations beyond the limits of a large family; and this, as we have ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 • Various
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... was a summer triclinium or dining room facing the north, and provided with the three-sided couch, from which it took its name, embracing a circular table. Through this they passed into a smaller court adorned like the other by ...
— The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2) • Henry William Herbert
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Words linked to "Triclinium" :   board, dining table, dining room


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