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An entrance to an amphitheater or stadium
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vomitory
Word definitions for vomitory in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an entrance to an amphitheater or stadium
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context medicine English) Inducing vomiting; emetic n. 1 The entrance into a theater or other large public venue, where masses of people are disgorged into the stands; a vomitorium 2 (context medicine English) A substance that induces vomiting; an emetic ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Vomitory can refer to: Vomitorium , an architectural feature in Ancient Roman amphitheatres. Vomitory (band) , a death metal band from Sweden.
Usage examples of vomitory.
The route now became confused to the fisherman, for, quitting the more public vomitories of the palace, his companion held his way by a secret door, through many dimly lighted and obscure passages.
Here she made her way to a door that opened on the common and public vomitories of the structure.
Zen made his way through the cavernous vaults and vomitories of the stadium until he finally emerged in the bleak piazzetta outside, its scruffy grass borders and failed shrubs and trees exposed beneath the powerful and pitiless lighting ranged high overhead on steel poles.
I have just come from my Mittagesen, of which I overate to excess, and another serving of sweets might prove vomitory.
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.