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Vomitories
Vomitory \Vom"i*to*ry\, n.; pl. Vomitories.
An emetic; a vomit.
--Harvey.-
[L. vomitorium.] (Arch.) A principal door of a large ancient building, as of an amphitheater.
Sixty-four vomitories . . . poured forth the immense multitude.
--Gibbon.
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vomitories
n. (plural of vomitory English)
Usage examples of "vomitories".
Sixty-four vomitories (for by that name the doors were very aptly distinguished) poured forth the immense multitude.
And when the day’s spectacle is over, and the blood of two thousand victims stains the ring, follow the giddy crowd as it streams from the vomitories into the street, trace its lazy course into the Forum, and hear it there scrambling for the bread of private indolence doled out by the purse of public corruption.