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
Beyond lay the broad passage of the vomitorium.
From Pearl-Maiden by Henry Rider Haggard
As the moment drew near for opening the vomitoria, or passages which led to the interior, people grew animated and joyous; they discussed and disputed about various things touching the spectacle.
From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Jeremiah Curtin
At the top of each flight of steps were doors called vomitoria, which gave egress from the theatre, and communicated directly with the external stair-cases596.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop
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 William Henry Withrow
Six inner doors, called vomitoria, opened on an equal number of stair-cases which ran down to the first præcinctio.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
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
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