vomitorium
Americannoun
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vomitoria
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of vomitorium
First recorded in 1745–55, vomitorium is from the Late Latin word vomitōrium
Example Sentences
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But that perception began to change with this 1986 hit, an adaptation of King’s novella “The Body,” in which the most terrifying moment is a pie-eating contest that turns into a comical vomitorium.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
When you make the most infamous movie ever to come out of a genre sometimes called the cannibal vomitorium, you’ve achieved true cinematic notoriety.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2023
The irony gods escaped to the vomitorium some time ago.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 4, 2019
For what I think we require, as a society, is some sort of collective vomitorium.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2012
The old Roman sports were gluttons; they stuffed themselves, then went to the vomitorium and threw up so they could eat more.
From Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep by William Crosbie Hunter
At last the vomitoria were opened, and crowds rushed to the centre.
From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Jeremiah Curtin
Linneus asserts, that three of the flies, called musca vomitoria, will consume the body of a dead horse, as soon as a lion can; Syst.
From The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes by Erasmus Darwin
The author of those offences is Calliphora vomitoria, the bluebottle, who is of a stouter build and arrayed in darkest blue.
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
He sat at the end of a seat near one of the vomitoria or doors of entrance from the internal lobbies in the shell of the building.
From The Mother of St. Nicholas A Story of Duty and Peril by Grant Balfour
The huge elliptical structure stood out in the plain, alone and solid except for the low, heavy arch of the vomitoria which broke the round of masonry.
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller
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