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单词 velarium
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velariumn.

/vɪˈlɛːrɪəm/
Forms: Plural velaria.
Etymology: < Latin vēlārium awning, < vēlum sail, etc., velum n.
1. Roman History. A large awning used to cover a theatre or amphitheatre as a protection against sun or rain.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > other parts of theatre > [noun] > parts of ancient Greek or Roman theatre
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velarium1834
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1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii III. v. ii. 193 The obstinate refusal of one part of the velaria to ally itself with the rest.
1836 C. Wordsworth Athens & Attica xiii. 90 As if for the insertion of horizontal beams, on which, in the more effeminate times of Athens, a velarium was perhaps extended.
1880 L. Wallace Ben-Hur 267 When he sat under the purple velaria of the Circus Maximus.
in extended use.1892 Contemp. Rev. Nov. 681 The great velarium of the pulpit, intended as a sounding board for the preacher's voice, was spread over the nave like a vast bird.
2. Zoology. A thin marginal rim on the bell of certain hydrozoans.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Scyphozoa > member of > rim on bell of
velarium1888
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 782 The bell itself is somewhat flattened... Its margin never becomes inflected inwards: when it is thin and velum-like..it is termed by Haeckel ‘velarium’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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