tablinum
Americannoun
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tablina
plural
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Etymology
Origin of tablinum
1820–30; < Latin tab ( u ) līnum, equivalent to tabula ( see table) + -īnum, neuter of -īnus -ine 1
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Opening from the atrium was the tablinum; here were the family archives, the statues, pictures, and other ancestral relics.
From Roman Women by Alfred Brittain
The rooms at the sides of the peristyle offer nothing remarkable, but the three chambers opposite to the tablinum are of considerable size, and contain some good pictures.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
Opposite you was another recess, the tablinum, opening probably into a little garden; here in the warm weather the family might take their meals.
From Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero by W. Warde Fowler
One of the most remarkable of these houses contains three stories; the first, level with the street, contains the public part of the house, the vestibule, atrium, and tablinum, which opens upon a spacious terrace.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
The floor is elevated two steps above the level of the tablinum.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
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