vomitorium

Example Sentences

• "1822, John Taaffe, A Comment on the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, John Murray, page 161, […] the way that the greatest width of the interior of the Flavian amphitheatre would be ascertained, if a line were drawn from one of the vomitoria of the west side, in the uppermost story, to the eastern vomitorium, precisely facing it."
• "1844, F. Buxton Whalley, "Excursions from Rome in June 1843", in Leonhard Schmitz (Ed.), The Classical Museum, page 330, In the tunnel to the right and left as one enters there is a passage which contains a flight of steps conducting to a "vomitorium," situated in the second "præcinctio;" […]"
• "1906, Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen, Carthage and Tunis: The Old and New Gates of the Orient, Hutchinson, page 52, At each of the extremities under the grand vomitorium was a gate, one called Sanivivaria and the other Mortualis."
• "Miles turned to him beaming, his nostrils taking in the ambiguous smell of molten glass rising from the vomitoria beneath them, which only he among the crew found at all pleasant."
• "1944, Lewis Mumford, The Condition of Man, Harcourt, Brace & World (1944), p. 467, In the rich man's house the vomitorium became an essential chamber: the place where the guzzler of rich food emptied his stomach, so that he might come back to the feast for more."
• "1994, LeeAnn Alexander-Mott and D. Barry Lumsden, Understanding Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Obesity, Taylor & Francis (1994), →ISBN, p. 23, The Romans frowned on obesity, and they were accredited for inventing the vomitorium, which allowed them to binge and relieve themselves of the feeling of fullness."