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English
Etymology
From Latin laqueāria.
Pronunciation
Noun
laquearia pl (plural only)
- (historical) The panels of a coffered ceiling in Ancient Rome; a coffered ceiling.
1922 October, T S Eliot, “Part II. A Game of Chess.”, in The Waste Land, 1st book edition, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, published December 1922, →OCLC, page 18:[…] stirred by the air / That freshened from the window, these ascended / In fattening the prolonged candle-flames, / Flung their smoke into the laquearia, / Stirring the pattern on the coffered ceiling.
Latin
Noun
laqueāria
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of laquear
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of laqueārium
References
- “laquearia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “laquearia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers