单词 | velarium |
释义 | velariumn. 1. Roman History. A large awning used to cover a theatre or amphitheatre as a protection against sun or rain. ΘΚΠ 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 scenaa1387 scene1481 orchestra1606 proscenium1606 cavea1611 scenarioa1684 subselliuma1701 diazoma1706 parascenium1706 pavilion1730 hyposcenium1753 thymele1753 vomitorium1754 velarium1834 velum1843 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. 2. Zoology. A thin marginal rim on the bell of certain hydrozoans. ΘΚΠ 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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