Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Belonging to a bedchamber; private.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Belonging to a chamber or bedroom.

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  • adjective obsolete Belonging to a chamber or bedroom.

Etymologies

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Latin cubicularis, from cubiculum a sleeping room, from cubare to lie down.

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Examples

  • Corruna was a swath of white cubicular buildings built around-spectacular circular plazas whose centers were invariably filled with beautifully sculpted fountains or small arboreal sanctuaries.

    beneath an opal moon Lustbader, Eric 1980

  • Lodge of the cubicular slave, or attendant upon the bed-room.

    Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

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  • n., bedchamber attendant

    July 9, 2008