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Meaning of triclinium | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

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

Examples

“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;...”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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