triclinium means A couch for reclining at mealtimes, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 86 out of 100.
noun
- A couch for reclining at mealtimes, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts.“Seated on the triclinium in the midst is a middle-aged man, with a high and noble brow; the fine aquiline nose, so patrician, as if their eagle had set his own seal on his warlike race;...”
- A dining room furnished with such a triple couch.