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ǁ Frigidarium. World English Historical Dictionary

ǁ Frigidarium. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2022. ǁ Frigidarium [L., f. frīgid-us cold.] The cooling-room in a Roman bath.

1 1706.  in Phillips (ed. Kersey).

2 1832.  Gell, Pompeiana, I. vi. 95. Here was certainly the frigidarium, in which many persons took off their garments, but more especially those who intended to make use only of the natatio, or cold bath.

3 1840.  Hood, Up Rhine, 244. In another [temple I saw] grown men and women were wading up to their chins in a sort of Frigidarium, or cold bath.

4   b.  transf. A room kept at a low temperature.

5 1892.  Quarterly Review, CLXXIV. April, 400. Furniture was very scanty and uncouth; and even the chief rooms, with all their ample fire-places, were but miserable frigidaria.

6 1892.  Pall Mall G., 14 April, 2/2. Room … for fourteen in the frigidarium [of the Morgue].

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