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English
Noun
colossæum (plural colossæums)
- Archaic spelling of colosseum.
1765, Tobias George Smollett, The Works of Tobias Smollett, volume XI, Letter the Thirty‐Second, page 338:The colossæum was built by Vespasian, who employed thirty thousand Jewish slaves in the work; but finished and dedicated by his son Titus, who, on the first day of its being opened, produced fifty thousand wild beasts, which were all killed in the arena.