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‖ cubiculum|kjuːˈbɪkjʊləm|
Pl. -a.
[L. = sleeping-chamber, f. cubāre to lie down.]
A sleeping-chamber. (Only jocose in modern use.) In Archæol., a burial-chamber in the Catacombs; also, a chapel or oratory attached to a church, esp. in a crypt.
1832Gell Pompeiana I. viii. 154 That sort of cubiculum or chamber. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xxi. 157, ‘I stole up to Tom's cubiculum there, over the stables.’ 1879Sir G. Scott Lect. Archit. II. 40 This nave had arcades opening into either aisles, or into cubicula or oratories. |