Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
caldarium .
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Examples
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Steam rose around her as if from a bubbling pot, or from the water in the calidarium at Alexandria.
Lilith’s Dream: A Tale of the Vampire Life Whitley Strieber 2002
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Steam rose around her as if from a bubbling pot, or from the water in the calidarium at Alexandria.
Lilith’s Dream: A Tale of the Vampire Life Whitley Strieber 2002
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S. Bernardo alle Terme, Cistercians, is a round church built in 1598, its foundations being laid in the calidarium of the baths (Italian terme) of Diocletian.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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The fall of the cliff has torn down fragment after fragment, but the half of an immense calidarium still stands like an apse fronting the sea, a grand sea-wall juts out into the waves, and at its base, like a great ship of stone in the midst of the water, lies still unbroken after eighteen hundred years the sea-bath itself.
Stray Studies from England and Italy John Richard Greene 1860
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After the gym came the calidarium, or hot bath; then the steam room, the tepidarium, or lukewarm bath; and finally, the frigidarium, or cold bath which was usually a sort of swimming pool.
unknown title 2009
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; from this room, the horse, after being thoroughly acclimated, can, if necessary, pass to the hottest room, or calidarium, from 160° to 170°
Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. Various
chained_bear commented on the word calidarium
"...with a pause to see the curious buildings in which madeira was matured in a vast barrel at a temperature that would have been considered excessive in the calidarium of a Turkish bath."
—P. O'Brian, The Yellow Admiral, 260
Also spelled caldarium (more commonly).
March 19, 2008