vomitorium
Americannoun
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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
These are assisted by the colored glass louvres, which have no other artistic merit, but serve, where they are placed over the side-entrances, to indicate the nation to whose department belongs that particular vomitorium.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 by Various
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