triclinium

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Definition of triclinium

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noun

(Ancient-Rome)A couch for reclining at mealtimes, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts.

“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;...”

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noun

(Ancient-Rome)A couch for reclining at mealtimes, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts.

“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;...”
(Ancient-Rome)A dining room furnished with such a triple couch.

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Borrowed from Latin trīclīnium, from Ancient Greek τρικλίνιον (triklínion).

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