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- noun Plural form of
vomitorium .
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Examples
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When a country or a culture -- not unlike the ancient civilization of Rome -- becomes more interested in vomitoriums than the growing disparity and disaffection in its populace, it runs a serious risk of caving in on itself.
Judith Acosta: And Now, More About Me: The Sorry State Of The News Media Judith Acosta 2011
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We learned that wealthy people had vomitoriums in their homes -- so when they'd consumed too much, they could throw up and start all over again.
Eileen Ogintz: Too Hot for You in Pompeii? Try Times Square Eileen Ogintz 2011
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When a country or a culture -- not unlike the ancient civilization of Rome -- becomes more interested in vomitoriums than the growing disparity and disaffection in its populace, it runs a serious risk of caving in on itself.
Judith Acosta: And Now, More About Me: The Sorry State Of The News Media Judith Acosta 2011
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We learned that wealthy people had vomitoriums in their homes -- so when they'd consumed too much, they could throw up and start all over again.
Eileen Ogintz: Too Hot for You in Pompeii? Try Times Square Eileen Ogintz 2011
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It's sort of like how England was once the new Rome, only with more lace and less vomitoriums.
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We were stranded in an airport together for six hours I was headed for London, he for Athens and he told me all about his Greek and Roman heritage, while earnestly peddling the idea that vomitoriums should never have faded from the architectural and cultural scene.
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They might as well start building vomitoriums and throwing people to the lions for entertainment too.
Think Progress » McCain Calls For Escalation In Iraq, Suggests Putting More Troops On The Ground 2006
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They need to bring back vomitoriums and put them in there rightful places, the theater.
War Games Again? Kill Me Now... scifirantergirl 2005
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They need to bring back vomitoriums and put them in there rightful places, the theater.
Archive 2005-05-01 scifirantergirl 2005
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After about 2 hours, however, I was right there with everyone else and it all went down like an old-school Roman banquet, minus the immeasurable amounts of food and the vomitoriums.
kinaesthesia Diary Entry kinaesthesia 2002
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