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
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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
The old Roman sports were gluttons; they stuffed themselves, then went to the vomitorium and threw up so they could eat more.
From Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep by William Crosbie Hunter
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
At once the vomitoria were thrown open, and all who could hastened to the portico outside where the restaurateurs had their quarters.
From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Lewis Wallace
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 Erasmus Darwin
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
The musca vomitoria is produced in carcases; three of these flies consume the dead body of a horse as soon as a lion.
From The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes by Erasmus Darwin
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