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- noun Plural form of
vomitorium .
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Examples
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The musca vomitoria is produced in carcases; three of these flies consume the dead body of
Note IV 1803
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Six inner doors, called vomitoria, opened on an equal number of stair-cases which ran down to the first præcinctio.
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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
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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
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The familiar musca domestica, the yellow - striped scathophaga stercoraria, the larger calliphora vomitoria, and a hundred others.
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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.
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Keywords in the history of Roman decadence are inbreeding, bacchanalia, orgies, vomitoria, Great Fire of Rome, gladiators and pederasty.
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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
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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
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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.
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