cubiculum
Americannoun
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cubicula
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noun
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Etymology
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
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
The works were probably commissioned by an unknown early Christian for a cubiculum.
From Time Magazine Archive
The cubiculum, called Platonia, was decorated by Damasus with marble incrustations.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani
The small rooms opening into the atrium of a Pompeian house are known as cubicula.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
The galleries do not seem to have had any specific name; but the chambers were called cubicula.
From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare
We have already spoken of the eucharistic celebrations of which the cubicula were the scene; and still existing baptisteries prove that the other sacrament was also administered there.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" 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 tomb has no chapel of its own, but is a mere grave in a gallery, with a rectangular instead of a circular space above, as in the cubicula.
From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare
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