cubiculum
Americannoun
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cubicula
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noun
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Origin of cubiculum
1825–35; < Latin: bedroom. See cubicle
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In Mr. Paladino’s white cubiculum, or bedroom, a figure stares at the wall, seemingly looking away from the plaster casts of Vesuvius’s victims.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2018
It started with the afterthought that would always be the Business section; the identical cubiculum of the National staff, looking to the unschooled like other cubicles but actually a prancing ground that peacocks sought.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2010
The works were probably commissioned by an unknown early Christian for a cubiculum.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only a museum can frame a room as art, such as the Met's cubiculum, or bedroom, from the Roman town of Boscoreale on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius.
From Time Magazine Archive
At all events, Ampliatus, husband of Bonifatia and father of Gordianus, may be the son, grandson, or even a later descendant of the man in whose memory the cubiculum was originally built.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani
Hence a low door forms the entrance of a gallery out of which open six cubicula, one of them containing a fine while marble sarcophagus, and decorated with a painting of the seven-branched candlestick.
From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare
Other rooms round the court were the triclinium, or dining room, and cubicula or bedchambers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
Bosio enumerates six cubicula or family burial-chapels in the cemetery or catacomb of Priscilla, and thirteen arched tombs with paintings.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
The two lower corridors of this catacomb have tombs or cubicula on the sides; a few of these are painted, and the vault of the corridor in front of them, also.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
The rest of the apartment was divided longitudinally into little cubicula, rooms of the space of the one dirty mat with which each was furnished.
From The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) by James S. (James Seguin) De Benneville
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