Wiktionary
n. 1 A small room, especially a bedroom, typically those small rooms found on the upper floor of a Roman house. 2 A small room carved out of the wall of a catacomb, used as mortuary chapels, and in Roman times, for Christian worship.
Usage examples of "cubiculum".
She opened the door of her cubiculum and paused in surprise on the threshold.
Chapter Seven Fidelma paused outside the door of the cubiculum hospitale that had been assigned to the Abbess Etain.
Bishop Colman, for example, requested that you be allocated a cubiculum because of your rank.
I remember that well, for they stood at the door of the cubiculum arguing quite heatedly.
Abbess Abbe came upon me when I was leaving the cubiculum of Abbess Etain.
She had merely eaten some fruit and a piece of paximatium, the heavy bread, and then gone immediately to her cubiculum to rest for a while.
He seemed to brace himself before he pushed open the door of the cubiculum and disappeared inside.
The cubiculum must be disinfected and not used for a while until the contagion is dispersed.
Eadulf told her solemnly as they deposited the jug at her cubiculum and then went out into the quietness of the cloisters.
Even as she entered, Fidelma realized that she had been to this cubiculum before.
She knocked on the door of the cubiculum to enquire what was the matter.
This must be the brooch that Etain dropped and that Athelnoth said he was going to return-the brooch he mislaid when he took us to his cubiculum to show us?
Some sixth sense recognized the hurried footfalls and she opened the door of the cubiculum, almost colliding with a breathless Eadulf.
Not until I slipped from the stool and was unconscious, or disperh until you removed me to my cubiculum, did the murderer drag the body from the cask and then pull it along the tunnel and cast him backslash into the sea.
The cubiculum had been turned into a shrine of some kind, although I had a hard time imagining who might be so desperate as to seek solace in such a place.