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At last the vomitoria were opened, and crowds rushed to the centre.

From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Curtin, Jeremiah

Crowds were leaving the amphitheatre and pouring out to the city through the passages called vomitoria.

From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Curtin, Jeremiah

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 Darwin, Erasmus

These were so capacious that the whole multitude could in a few minutes disperse, and were thence called vomitoria.

From Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs by Withrow, William Henry

The delicacy of our tastes would not permit the vomitoria of the Romans to remain.

From The Physiology of Taste by Robinson, Fayette