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Definition of Coliseums
1. coliseum [n] - See also: coliseum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coliseums
Literary usage of Coliseums
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Laws by Illinois (1919)
"... coliseums. § 1. Amends sections 1 and 3, Act of 1913. { 1. Tax rate limited
to two mills for establishment and two-thirds of one mill for maintenance ..."
2. The Lost Art of Reading by Gerald Stanley Lee (1903)
"Only those who have coliseums in them can keep coliseums around them. The Ideal
has its own way. ..."
3. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1895)
"... and to combat with brutes and even with human life, in the coliseums and
arenas, was the plane aspired to, sought after and followed up. ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"coliseums were erected for the occasions, holding respectively sixty thousand
and one hundred and twenty thousand persons. ..."
5. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"Yet such men, far more than any Alps or coliseums, are the true world- wonders,
which it concerns us to behold clearly, and imprint forever on our ..."
6. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas Carlyle (1860)
"Yet such men, far more than any Alps or coliseums are the true world-wonders,
which it concerns us to behold clearly, ..."
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