triclinium
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.28 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A couch for reclining at mealtimes, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts.
noun
A dining room furnished with such a triple couch.
Example Sentences
- "Seated on the triclinium in the midst is a middle-aged man, with a high and noble brow; the fine aquiline nose, so patrician, as if their eagle had set his own seal on his warlike race;..."
- "The manor house seemed still as the night itself. Morgan la Blanche had taken herself to a couch in the triclinium, choosing it rather than one of the cubicles leading from the atrium."
- "OECUS, the Latinized form of Gr. οἶκος, house, used by Vitruvius for the principal hall or saloon in a Roman house, which was used occasionally as a triclinium for banquets."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin trīclīnium, from Ancient Greek τρικλίνιον (triklínion).
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Frequently Paired Words
biclinium