单词 | cubiculum |
释义 | cubiculumn. A sleeping-chamber. (Only jocose in modern use.) In Archaeology, a burial-chamber in the Catacombs; also, a chapel or oratory attached to a church, esp. in a crypt. ΚΠ 1832 W. Gell Pompeiana I. viii. 154 That sort of cubiculum or chamber. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xvi. 267 ‘I stole up to Tom's cubiculum there, over the stables.’ a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) II. 40 This nave had arcades opening into either aisles, or into cubicula or oratories. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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