Definition of Lacunaria

1. lacunar [n] - See also: lacunar

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lacunaria

lacuna musculorum
lacuna pharyngis
lacuna urethralis
lacuna vasorum
lacunae
lacunae laterales
lacunal
lacunar
lacunar abscess
lacunar amnesia
lacunar ligament
lacunar skull
lacunar state
lacunar tonsillitis
lacunaria (current term)
lacunars
lacunary
lacunas
lacunate
lacune
lacunes
lacunose
lacunous
lacunule
lacus
lacus lacrimalis
lacustral
lacustrine

Literary usage of Lacunaria

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Description of the Collection of Ancient Marbles in the British Museum by Taylor Coombe, British Museum Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Edward Hawkins, Charles Robert Cockerell, Samuel Birch (1830)
"... the beams and the lacunaria, were all of marble. A more detailed description of these would, however, be foreign from the present subject. ..."

2. The Propylaia to the Athenian Akropolis: The Classical Building by William Bell Dinsmoor (2004)
"... spaced so closely that thin marble lacunaria, or coffer slabs, could be laid di-. ... lacunaria."

3. Ancient Art and Its Remains: Or, A Manual of the Archaeology of Art by Karl Otfried Müller, Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1852)
"Temples and other sumptuous edifices had sunken panels, lacunaria, pa.7vu/ja,ra., ... Chryselephantine lacunaria are even described by Ennius, Androm. p. ..."

4. The Temple of Apollo Bassitas by Frederick A. Cooper (1996)
"The soffits ofthe ceiling beams are at the same level as the limestone lacunaria on the other side ofthe girders. In other words, the marble ..."

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