单词 | dining bed |
释义 | > as lemmasdining bed dining bed n. Ancient History (esp. Roman History) a couch on which a diner reclined during a meal. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > sofa or couch > [noun] > for reclining at meals dining bed1577 triclinium1646 feast-beda1661 supper beda1661 table couch1783 1577 J. Bishop Beautifull Blossomes f. 42v There were in the middes of the shippe three faire dining chambers, hauing in them thirtie dining beddes. 1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. i. 46 Otho standing vpon his dining bed..at last..refrained their rage. 1822 J. C. Robertson & T. Byerley Percy Anecd. 159 The dining bed..on which the ancients lay at meals, was about four or five feet high. 1999 Jrnl. Soc. Archit. Historians 58 398/2 The guests went from being arranged on individual dining beds in view of each other to being arranged on a kind of sloping semicircular communal dais in view of others. < as lemmas |
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