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  • noun A cellar once used for storage in an abbey

Etymologies

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Latin

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Examples

  • The original course of the river is thought to have gone straight through the abbey precincts and was moved by the mason monks to its present position, flowing beneath the south end of the abbey cellarium.

    Archive 2007-06-01 2007

  • The original course of the river is thought to have gone straight through the abbey precincts and was moved by the mason monks to its present position, flowing beneath the south end of the abbey cellarium.

    Medieval marvels revealed at abbey 2007

  • Chapel of the Nine Altars, and the magnificent vaulted perspective of the dark cellarium of the lay-brothers, are perhaps the most fascinating portions of the buildings.

    Yorkshire Gordon Home 1923

  • Facere certumst. tu intus cura quod opus est. sume, posce, prome quid vis. te facio cellarium.

    Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

  • Parverum it is defined as "cellarium promptuarium".] [Footnote 2: Cf. Burns '"godly laces,"' To the Unco Righteous '.] [Footnote 3: All editions previous to 1853 have' staid '.] [Footnote 4: The phrase is Marvell's.

    The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850

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