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Its best-preserved section is the frigidarium, the cold-water pool in which bathers dipped to close their pores after enjoyed the hot-water sections.— City-Guide.cc
After the gym came the calidarium, or hot bath; then the steam room, the tepidarium, or lukewarm bath; and finally, the frigidarium, or cold bath which was usually a sort of swimming pool.
The walls in the frigidarium were decorated with paintings representing shady groves and dark forests; the vaulted roof was painted blue and strewn with stars, and through a small round opening the sunlight poured in.— From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People
From a large, old beech tree close to the wall, into which a dozen lads had climbed, she already saw handkerchiefs waving and heard the shouts of clear, boyish voices Sister Hyacinthe had just gone into the house, and like an illumination the thought darted through Barbara's mind that the road could be seen from the little summer house which the reverend owner of the castle called his "frigidarium," because it was cool even during the warmest summer day It was a small, towerlike building close to the garden wall, whose single inner room was designed to imitate a rock cave.— Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
The Hammam to Easterns is a luxury as well as a necessity; men sit there for hours talking chiefly of money and their prowess with the fair; and women pass half the day in it complaining of their husbands' over-amativeness and contrasting their own chaste and modest aversion to camel congress FN#23] The frigidarium or cold room, coolness being delightful to the Arab FN#24] The calidarium or hot room of the bath FN#25] The Angel who acts door-keeper of Hell; others say he specially presides over the torments of the damned (Koran xliii.— Arabian nights. English
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