Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
cubiculum .
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- noun Plural form of
cubiculum .
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Examples
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Otherwise, Vitruvius mentions the cubiculum once, noting that "private rooms [cubicula] and libraries should look to the east, for their purpose demands the morning light."
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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The rest of the apartment was divided longitudinally into little cubicula, rooms of the space of the one dirty mat with which each was furnished.
The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)
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Bosio enumerates six _cubicula_ or family burial-chapels in the cemetery or catacomb of Priscilla, and thirteen arched tombs with paintings.
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Among some rude charcoal sketches in one of its cubicula is one representing the demolition of a pagan idol, an index of the end of the fourth century.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Of the work of the stone-masons and sculptors in the cubicula of the martyrs, and in the ornamentation of the altars, choir-screens, pulpits, Easter candlesticks, etc., of the great basilicas only scanty remains have been preserved.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Nola, Fondi, etc. The basilica at Nola counted five naves and had on each side four additions or chapels (cubicula), and an apsis arranged in a clover shape.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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At first crypts were sometimes as deepsunk as the cubicula of the catacombs themselves, e.g. in Saint-Germain, at Auxerre, and in the Chartres cathedral.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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The corridors and cubicula of this portion of the cemetery of Priscilla offer numerous evidences of Apostolic antiquity, and there is sufficient reason to believe
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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+ The altar detached from the wall in the cubicula, or sepulchral chapels surrounded by loculi and arcosolia, used as places of worship in the catacombs or in the churches erected above ground after the time of Constantine.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Along the passages burial chambers (cubicula) open to the right and left, also hewn out of the tufa rock.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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