Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Rom. antiq., a litter, closed or open, borne by slaves.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Rom. Antiq.) A kind of litter or portable couch.
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- noun historical A kind of
litter orportable couch .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Roman people to the sea-ports; or again, from time to time, the _lectica_, brought along by slaves or mules, of a bishop on a visitation; and then the litter, with close-drawn curtains, of a matron or some great personage.
Saint Augustin Louis Bertrand 1903
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The bearers protested loudly at the weight of their burden when they lifted the lectica, but the promise of a little extra pay silenced their complaints.
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Now I will get a lectica and have you carried out to the hills.
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They were scarcely beyond the city when Beric, who was weaker from loss of blood than he imagined, dozed off to sleep, and did not wake till the lectica was set down in the atrium of the house on the Alban Hills.
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Scopus had gone but a few minutes when he returned with a lectica, which was a sort of palanquin, carried by four stout countrymen.
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Then turning she passed out of the door, entered her lectica and was carried away.
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Worcester; -- on which occasion it may be mentioned, that she was conveyed from the water-side in a _lectica_, or half-litter, borne by six knights.
Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Lucy Aikin 1822
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_Causidici nova, cam venial lectica Mathonis; plena ipso -- _
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Λ•8ΐΓίί'κίλτο, lectica, quiC auro - diltitjcia erat 5, β• 13• κοιγ. ίλος, ph.
bilby commented on the word lectica
Maybe we can revive this for inflatable furniture.
April 16, 2024