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单词 spoliary
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spoliaryn.

Etymology: < Latin spoliārium, < spolium spoil n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈspoliary.
rare.
A place in the Roman amphitheatre where the slain gladiators were stripped.
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1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. v. 142 An Act of the Senate made upon that occasion is extant in Lampridius:..‘let the Parricide be drawn, let him be torn in pieces in the Spoliary’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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