triclinium
IPA: traɪkɫˈɪniʌm
noun
- (Ancient Rome) A couch for reclining at mealtimes, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts.
- (Ancient Rome) A dining room furnished with such a triple couch.
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Examples of "triclinium" in Sentences
- The triclinium had three couches surrounding a table.
- The triclinium often was similar in size to the master bedroom.
- The text is obviously description of some particular triclinium.
- The triclinium was added some years after the main hall was built.
- A triclinium or dining room with a fine mosaic floor was also added.
- The hexagonal hall originally served probably as a dining hall triclinium .
- Surrounding the peristyle were the bathrooms, kitchen and summer triclinium.
- This space may have been a triclinium, and is decorated with very fine frescoes.
- She may even have been responsible for commissioning the unique design and decoration of the triclinium.66
- This villa has an atrium, a courtyard containing a pool, a triclinium with views of the Bay of Naples, a colonnaded courtyard, and a private bath complex.
- Using Vitruvius, panelists will discuss the domus and insula of ancient Rome, then move to a discussion of the triclinium and Roman dining customs based on Martial.
- As we were quickly escorted through the frescoed rooms, we stopped in the triclinium – the dining room which had once seen so many famous faces smiling, laughing, even crying for mercy.
- Also included in the exhibition are unusual stucco decorations from the Villa Petraro, an estate with a working farm, and the triclinium, or dining room, from the nearby Villa Carmiano.
- To the right of the triclinium is a very elegant chamber, and another, which you may call either a very large chamber (_cubiculum_), or moderate-sized eating-room (_cœnatio_), which commands a full prospect both of the sun and sea.
- Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Napoli e Pompei/Fotografica Foglia\ A bronze brazier Off the atrium, a nearly full complement of burnt-sienna and ocher walls was discovered in the triclinium , or dining room, of a country villa near Castellammare di Stabia; their frescoed panels portray Neptune carrying Amymone away on a galloping stallion, Dionysus and Ceres reclining on a seahorse skimming blue waters and a triumphal Dionysian procession led by a satyr.