tepidariumn.
/tɛpɪˈdɛːrɪəm/ The warm room in an ancient Roman bath, situated between the frigidarium and the caldarium. Hence also applied to a similar room in a Turkish bath.
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1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. xxi. 58 b [Bathers] doe first goe in to the Tepidarie too make themselues sweate.
1818 E. Blaquière tr. F. Pananti Narr. Resid. Algiers 223 He successively passes through the frigidarium, and tepidarium, until he reaches the calidarium of the Romans.
1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii I. i. vii. 135 The more luxurious departed by another door to the tepidarium.
1969 J. Wainwright Take-over Men ii. 27 I followed him..into the warm room (the Tepidarium)..into the hot room (the Calidarium); and finally..into the Laconicum.
1975 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 5 Oct. 4/3 When you are gleaming horribly [with sweat], you go into the tepidarium.
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