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Definition of triclinium in English: tricliniumnounPlural triclinia trɪˈklɪnɪəmtrʌɪˈklʌɪnɪəmtrʌɪˈklɪnɪəmtraɪˈklɪniəm 1A dining table with couches along three sides, used in ancient Rome. Example sentencesExamples - Clytemnestra led Miri to a place at the head of the triclinium removed from Germanicus and Agrippina, but she noted, several heads above some very important people from the city.
- The frugal meal is served at triclinia below hanging oil-lamps in the high-ceilinged murk.
- Round the perimeter of the room is usually a continuous bench seat (a very distant relation of the Mediterranean triclinium?) which, like the walls and floor, is covered with patterned ornamental fabrics and cushions.
- The original building comprised a large assembly hall with benches, a podium, and an entrance construction that was square with a column at each corner; a separate, unusually large triclinium with built benches; and water facilities.
- You can see how a triclinium was used to entertain in another fresco, the symposium scene from the Casa dei Casti Amanti in Pompeii.
- 1.1 A room containing a triclinium.
Example sentencesExamples - The first of these takes place in the triclinium and consists of two moments: the washing of the feet and the dialogue which follows it.
- The ante-room to the triclinium had a fine mosaic floor of which three panels survive, showing the seasons spring, summer, and winter.
- Typical larger Roman houses had a special dining room, the triclinium.
- For this Kondoleon re-created the triclinium of the Atrium House and its adjacent nyrnphaeum, or fountain court.
- From the villa rustica known as the Villa Carmiano are three frescoed walls from the triclinium, the sitting room, in which three couches in a U shape typically faced a view, in the case of Stabiae, of the Bay of Naples.
Origin Latin, from Greek triklinion, from tri- 'three' + klinē 'couch'. Definition of triclinium in US English: tricliniumnountraɪˈklɪniəmtrīˈklinēəm 1A dining table with couches along three sides, used in ancient Rome. Example sentencesExamples - The frugal meal is served at triclinia below hanging oil-lamps in the high-ceilinged murk.
- Round the perimeter of the room is usually a continuous bench seat (a very distant relation of the Mediterranean triclinium?) which, like the walls and floor, is covered with patterned ornamental fabrics and cushions.
- You can see how a triclinium was used to entertain in another fresco, the symposium scene from the Casa dei Casti Amanti in Pompeii.
- Clytemnestra led Miri to a place at the head of the triclinium removed from Germanicus and Agrippina, but she noted, several heads above some very important people from the city.
- The original building comprised a large assembly hall with benches, a podium, and an entrance construction that was square with a column at each corner; a separate, unusually large triclinium with built benches; and water facilities.
- 1.1 A room containing a triclinium.
Example sentencesExamples - From the villa rustica known as the Villa Carmiano are three frescoed walls from the triclinium, the sitting room, in which three couches in a U shape typically faced a view, in the case of Stabiae, of the Bay of Naples.
- The first of these takes place in the triclinium and consists of two moments: the washing of the feet and the dialogue which follows it.
- For this Kondoleon re-created the triclinium of the Atrium House and its adjacent nyrnphaeum, or fountain court.
- Typical larger Roman houses had a special dining room, the triclinium.
- The ante-room to the triclinium had a fine mosaic floor of which three panels survive, showing the seasons spring, summer, and winter.
Origin Latin, from Greek triklinion, from tri- ‘three’ + klinē ‘couch’. |