triclinium

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To the right of the triclinium is a very elegant chamber, and another, which you may call either a very large chamber (_cubiculum_), or moderate-sized eating-room (_cœnatio_), which commands a full prospect both of the sun and sea.

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  1. noun A couch facing three sides of a rectangular table, used by the ancient Greeks, Etruscans, and Romans for reclining at meals.
  2. noun A room containing such a couch or couches; a dining room.

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  • Ahead of us, the tablinum and triclinium were burned out and without roofs. —  FSF,January2008
  • Likewise forget all that sponges on sticks instead of Andrex stuff and no, they didn't all have breakfast reclining on the triclinium (a sort of three-way Ikea sofa affair) or wear togas all day either. —  British Blogs
  • This point is reached by means of sixteen stone steps cut in the rock, immediately above which is a bench of stone, forming three sides of a quadrangle, like a triclinium, generally supposed to have been the tribunal. —  The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
  • It was to occur in the triclinium, or great banquet-hall, of a palace--that of the Lady Lucia. —  Vergilius A Tale of the Coming of Christ
  • When he sent her dishes from the triclinium, where the gentlemen were having their meal, she would not taste them. —  Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero
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  1. Latin trīclīnium, from Greek triklīnion, diminutive of triklīnos, room with three couches : tri-, three; see trei- in Indo-European roots + klīnē, couch; see klei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin triclinium, from Greek τρικλίνιον, also τρίκλινος, a dining-room with three couches, from τρίκλινος, with three couches, from τρεῖς (τρι-), three, + κλίνη, a couch; see clinic.
 

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