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Impluvium   Listen
noun
Impluvium  n.  (Arch.) In Roman dwellings, a cistern or tank, set in the atrium or peristyle to recieve the water from the roof, by means of the compluvium; generally made ornamental with flowers and works of art around its birm.





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"Impluvium" Quotes from Famous Books



... at Highgate or Hampstead—build up an Atrium with an Impluvium, add to it a Caldarium if you please, and a Viridarium, too,—and omne quod exit in um: but you will not thereby produce a good dwelling-house; far from it, you will have a show-box fit for Cockneys to come and ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 • Various


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