Meaning of triclinium | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A couch for reclining at mealtimes, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts.
   Ancient-Rome
2. A dining room furnished with such a triple couch.
   Ancient-Rome

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“Seated on the triclinium in the midst is a middle-aged man, with a high and noble brow; the fine aquiline nose, so patrician, as if their eagle had set his own seal on his warlike race;...”

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