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Spot for a Turkish bath
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sudatorium
Word definitions for sudatorium in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In architecture , a sudatorium is a vaulted sweating-room ( sudor , sweat) of the Roman baths or thermae . The Roman architectural writer Vitruvius (v. 2) refers to it as concamerata sudatio . In order to obtain the great heat required, the whole wall was ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A hot room used to induce sweating
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"room in a bath for sweating," 1756, from Latin sudatus , past participle of sudare "to sweat," from sudor "sweat" (see sweat (v.)) + -orium (see -ory ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sudatorium \Su`da*to"ri*um\, n.; pl. Sudatoria . [L.] A sudatory. --Dunglison.
Usage examples of sudatorium.
When I was anointed with oil in the unctuarium, and later scraped clean of it in the sudatorium, none of the attendants remarked on my having to be cleansed of several encrustations that the human body normally does not accumulate in the course of a day.
Being then gradually warmed in the tepidarium, which has just been described, the delicate steps of the Pompeian elegant were conducted to the sudatorium.