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‖ sudatorium|s(j)uːdəˈtɔərɪəm|
[L., neut. sing. of sūdātōrius: see next and -orium.]
A room in which hot-air or steam baths are taken to produce sweating; a sweating-room (esp. Rom. Antiq.).
1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) III. 421 A Sudatorium has also been built here, the effect of which is caused by the steam of the water. 1820T. S. Hughes Trav. Sicily I. iii. 74 A sudatorium, or sweating-room. 1835Penny Cycl. IV. 37/1 A convenient apparatus for applying it [sc. heated air] was invented by the late Dr. Gower, called a Sudatorium. 1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) II. iii. ii. 25 The Roman mansion with its hypocaust and sudatorium. 1899F. T. Bullen Idylls Sea iv. 20, I awoke streaming as if in the sudatorium of a Hammam. |