triclinia

The Parasites, when there was not room for them on the "triclinia," or "couches" at table, were forced to sit on "subsellia," or "benches," at the bottom of the table.

The Captiva and the Mostellaria Titus Maccius Plautus 1847

I want to be better informed touching the cava aedium, the focus, the ara deorum penatum, the conclavia, triclinia, and caenationes; the atria where the women resided, and employed themselves in the woolen manufacture; the praetoria, which were so spacious as to become a nuisance in the reign of Augustus; and the Xysta, which were shady walks between two porticos, where the men exercised themselves in the winter.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

The second group Ellis describes is composed of triclinia, or dining rooms.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Domestic Area Report 2 2003

Even in private houses, these triclinia were magnificently adorned.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

Suddenly they found themselves at the entrance of the great banquet hall, where two triclinia were set facing each other, with room for the servants to pass between and minister to the wants of the feasters.

The Lion's Brood Duffield Osborne 1887

The multitude was to be arranged in a suite of parties, no doubt semicircularly adjusted, after the form of Roman triclinia, or Grecian symposia.

The New Testament Commentary Vol. III: John 1886

Republic, and Vitruvius tells us that some dining-rooms were fitted with three or more triclinia; but to put more than three guests on a single couch, and so increase the number, was not thought courteous or well-bred.

Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884

The triclinia were open at one end, i.e. not shut up as our dining-rooms are, and the air would not get close and "dinnery."

Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884

It is not surprising that we find in every important street these gaudy modern triclinia, which, I should observe, are as much frequented by a certain class of French people as by foreigners, for Paris is proverbially fond of dining out; in fact, the social intercourse may be said to take place more frequently in the public cafe than under the domestic roof.

Reminiscences of Captain Gronow Gronow, Rees Howell, 1794-1865 1862

As triclinia were placed in eating-rooms, such a room is sometimes called triclinium.

Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839