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  • noun Plural form of vomitorium.

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Examples

  • The musca vomitoria is produced in carcases; three of these flies consume the dead body of

    Note IV 1803

  • Six inner doors, called vomitoria, opened on an equal number of stair-cases which ran down to the first præcinctio.

    Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

  • He embedded the original cast-metal panels that were once affixed to the ends of seat rows into the gray walls of the vomitoria.

    After a Bitter Battle, a Quiet End Dana Rubinstein 2011

  • He embedded the original cast-metal panels that were once affixed to the ends of seat rows into the gray walls of the vomitoria.

    After a Bitter Battle, a Quiet End Dana Rubinstein 2011

  • The familiar musca domestica, the yellow - striped scathophaga stercoraria, the larger calliphora vomitoria, and a hundred others.

    Excerpt: A Visible Darkness by Michael Gregorio 2009

  • Gorged on pleasures of the flesh, you descend the stairs ... perhaps to sleep, perhaps to visit the world class vomitoria to prepare for the second wave of debauchery.

    Celebrate with Set, the Snake God! 2008

  • Keywords in the history of Roman decadence are inbreeding, bacchanalia, orgies, vomitoria, Great Fire of Rome, gladiators and pederasty.

    16 « June « 2008 « Jahsonic 2008

  • Keywords in the history of Roman decadence are inbreeding, bacchanalia, orgies, vomitoria, Great Fire of Rome, gladiators and pederasty.

    Go ask the physiognomists, phrenologists, pathognomists and characterologists « Jahsonic 2008

  • Common associated trees are bluejack oak (Quercus incana) and post oak (Q. stellata), with a characteristic understory of Yaupon (Ilex vomitoria) and flowering dogwood (Cornus florida).

    Piney Woods forests 2008

  • There are likewise the remains of two galleries one over another; and two vomitoria or great gateways at opposite sides of the arena, which is now a fine green, with a road through the middle of it: but all the external architecture and the ornaments are demolished.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

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