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Triclinium

The dining room of a Roman house, named after the three couches on which diners reclined; Vitruvius makes it twice as long as it is wide.

See also: Domus

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Transept · Transom · Transverse arch · Treillage · Triforium · Triglyph · Trilithon · Triumphal arch