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What is a triclinium?

What is a triclinium? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical, Roman antiquity) A couch for reclining at mealtimes, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts.
  2. (historical, Roman antiquity) A dining room furnished with such a triple couch.
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And, self-satisfied, he passed to the triclinium, where he sat down to supper with Eunice.
Caligula himself led the way to the triclinium and DEA Flavia followed him.
Typical larger Roman houses had a special dining room, the triclinium.
In many gardens we find about the triclinium the remains of four or six columns.
Other rooms round the court were the triclinium, or dining room, and cubicula or bedchambers.
You can see how a triclinium was used to entertain in another fresco, the symposium scene from the Casa dei Casti Amanti in Pompeii.

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