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Definition of Triclinium
1. Noun. A dining room (especially a dining room containing a dining table with couches along three sides).
2. Noun. A dining table with couches along three sides in ancient Rome.
Definition of Triclinium
1. n. A couch for reclining at meals, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts.
Definition of Triclinium
1. [n -NIA]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Triclinium
Literary usage of Triclinium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Archæology: Egyptian--Greek--Etruscan--Roman by Hodder Michael Westropp (1878)
"The whole arrangement of the triclinium consisted of three couches, and each
couch contained three persons, each person having his seat ac- PLAN OF ..."
2. A Manual of Roman Antiquities by William Ramsay, Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani (1894)
"triclinium.—In early times, the whole family eat together in the Atrium, or public
room; ... The word triclinium, however, in its strict signification, ..."
3. Christian Archaeology by Charles W Bennett (1888)
"There is trustworthy evidence that such change from the triclinium of the house
of a wealthy citizen, named Theophilus, to a Christian church took place at ..."
4. Museum of Antiquity: A Description of Ancient Life, the Employments by Levi W. Yaggy, Thomas Louis Haines (1886)
"PUS OF A. triclinium. The entertainment itself usually comprised three services ;
the first consisting of fresh eggs, olives, oysters, salad, ..."
5. Rome: A Tour of Many Days by George Head (1849)
"... plan of the whole extended over the site of the Scala Santa, on which particular
spot was situated a venerated ancient chamber, called the " triclinium ..."
6. Social Life at Rome in the Age of Cicero by William Warde Fowler (1909)
"The plan here given of a triclinium, as described by Plutarch in his ... Mensa PLAN
OP A triclinium. will show this sufficiently without elaborate ..."
7. Roman antiquities: or An account of the manners and customs of the Romans by Alexander Adam (1835)
"... or triclinium,2 because three couches (тог/у was no formality at other meals.
Persons took them alone or in company, either standing or sitting.1 tres ..."
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