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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Plural of pluteus.

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Examples

  • Reticuli circa columnas, plutei circa parietes, item cilicia, vela, ædium non sunt.

    The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871

  • No other words than those I have been discussing are, so far as I know, applied by the best writers to the storage of books; and, after a careful study of the passages in which they occur, I conclude that, so long as rolls only had to be accommodated, private libraries in Rome were fitted with rows of shelves standing against the walls (_plutei_), or fixed to them (_pegmata_).

    The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871

  • They, moreover, built over the joists with small bricks as high as the protection of the plutei and vineae permitted them; and on that place they laid two beams across, angle-ways, at a small distance from the outer walls, to support the rafters which were to cover the turret, and on the beams they laid joists across in a direct line, and on these they fastened down planks.

    Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars: with the Supplementary Books attributed to Hirtius. 1869

  • But when that part of the turret which was completed was protected and secured against every attempt of the enemy, they removed the plutei to other works.

    Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars: with the Supplementary Books attributed to Hirtius. 1869

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