laquearia

See also: Laquearia and laquearía

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

laquearia pl (plural only)

1. (historical) The panels of a coffered ceiling in Ancient Rome.
   • 1922 October, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “Part II. A Game of Chess.”, in The Waste Land, 1st book edition, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, published December 1922, →OCLC, page 18:

     […] stirred by the air / That freshened from the window, these ascended ⁠/ In fattening the prolonged candle-flames, / Flung their smoke into the laquearia, / Stirring the pattern on the coffered ceiling.

Latin

Noun

laqueāria

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of laquear

References

• “laquearia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “laquearia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers