Triclinium
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Triclinium is a noun meaning (Ancient Rome) A couch for reclining at mealtimes, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts.
Meaning
(Ancient Rome) A couch for reclining at mealtimes, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts.
More Meanings
- (Ancient Rome) A dining room furnished with such a triple couch.
Example Sentences
Seated on the triclinium in the midst is a middle-aged man, with a high and noble brow; the fine aquiline nose, so patrician, as if their eagle had set his own seal on his warlike race;.
Word Forms
- tricliniums
- triclinia
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tricenary, triduum, triumvirate, tricennium, tripos, trisulc.
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