Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to a triclinium, or to the ancient mode of reclining at table.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a triclinium, or to the ancient mode of reclining at table.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a
triclinium , or to the ancient mode of reclining at table.
Etymologies
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Latin tricliniaris. See triclinium.
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Examples
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At first these tricliniary beds were small, low, and round, and made of wood; afterwards, in the time of Augustus, square and highly ornamented couches came into fashion.
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