apodyteriumn.
/apəʊdɪˈtɪərɪəm/ originally. The apartment in which clothes were deposited by those who were preparing for the bath or palæstra; hence gen. a dressing-room, a robing-room.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > room for keeping clothes or dressing
wardrobec1440
garderobe?c1450
vestiaryc1450
vestuaryc1490
vestry1574
guarda-roba1602
dressing room1659
robe chamber1665
tire-room1681
robes-roomc1689
apodyteriuma1695
robing room1712
attiring-room1756
toilet1790
toilet chamber1798
toilet room1800
changing room1841
dressing shed1845
change room1886
a1695 A. Wood Life (1848) 193 Conducted in his doctor's robes from the apodyterium into the convocation house.
1820 T. Mitchell in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. Introd. p. lv (note) It was my lot to be sitting where you saw me, in the apodyterium.
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