Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A garret in some ancient Roman houses, used as a dryingplace for wood and for seasoning wine, smoke from the flues being allowed to escape into it; a smoke-room.
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Examples
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The vintage is rarely ripened by time, whose unrivalled work is imperfectly done in the _estufa_ or flue-stove, the old fumarium, or in the _sertio_ (apotheca), an attic whose glass roofing admits the sun.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855
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It was situate above the “fumarium,” as the smoke was thought to heighten the flavour of the wine.] [Footnote IV. 11: _A finely finished house_) -- Ver.
The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes Phaedrus 1746
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