frigidarium
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frigidaria
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Finally, they would enter the largest and most spectacular room of all - the frigidarium, or cold room.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025
Exposed now is a Roman thermal bath with its frigidarium, or cold room, almost intact.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shadow-travel left her groggy and nauseous, as if she’d been dragged from the cold waters of the frigidarium into the sauna at a Roman bathhouse.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
The Nuremberg bath is handsomely planned, and has a spacious frigidarium.
From The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction by Robert Owen Allsop
These ruins represent the great Roman baths of the palace, the frigidarium, the piscine, the tepidarium, and, somewhat deeper, the hypocaustum, or furnace for heating.
From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by William Walton
There were hot, and cold, and tepid baths, caldaria, or sweating chambers, frigidaria, or cooling rooms, unctoria, or anointing rooms, and many others sufficient to accommodate sixteen hundred bathers at once.
From Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs by William Henry Withrow
From the fact that there were pierced openings or windows in all these domes, they probably constituted the frigidaria of the baths.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
It was simply a cold chamber, cella frigidaria.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
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