coliseum
noun
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Origin of coliseum
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Contemporary Examples of coliseum
As the Roman emperors knew during the staging of the gladiator games at the Coliseum, so FIFA knows now: The mob must be appeased.
An alert is in place after shots were fired near the Coliseum parking lot.
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“She may never climb out of this coliseum,” he tells The Daily Beast.
Gotham Book Mart closed in 2006; Coliseum Books met a similar fate in 2007.
Historical Examples of coliseum
You have called a meeting in the Coliseum to protest against the bread-tax.
The Eternal CityHall Caine
The Coliseum, which we meet first, on our right, was bristling with churches.
Pagan and Christian RomeRodolfo Lanciani
Look at what Turner will do when his cue is masonry,—in the Coliseum.
Lectures on LandscapeJohn Ruskin
None of them spoke until they had reached a safe distance from the Coliseum.
The Martyr of the CatacombsAnonymous
His shelter was the Coliseum or the doorways or desert places of Rome.