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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Belonging to a
chamber orbedroom .
Etymologies
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Latin cubicularis, from cubiculum a sleeping room, from cubare to lie down.
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Examples
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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
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Lodge of the cubicular slave, or attendant upon the bed-room.
she commented on the word cubicular
n., bedchamber attendant
July 9, 2008