laconicum

American  

[luh-kon-i-kuhm] / ləˈkɒn ɪ kəm /

noun

plural

laconica

1. the sudatorium of an ancient Roman bath.

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Etymology

Origin of laconicum

1690–1700; < Latin lacōnicum sweating room, noun use of neuter of Lacōnicus Laconian ( laconic ); the sweat bath was a Spartan custom

Example Sentences

This may be 110�-120� in the shampooing rooms, 140� in the tepidarium, 180� in the calidarium, and 250� in the laconicum.

From The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction by Allsop, Robert Owen

Adjoining is the laconicum with a firebrick furnace, after the nature of that of which I have before given full detailed drawings.

From The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction by Allsop, Robert Owen

So much of the iron flue as is in the laconicum must be coated with asbestos or some composition, or the heating will not be wholly by firebrick.

From The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction by Allsop, Robert Owen

Reisk.; although, according to Hephæstion, the laconicum metrum was a tetrameter catalecticus in syllabam, with a spondaic ending; and according to M. Victorinus ubi sup. a trimeter catalecticus in syllabam.1581.B.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried

In the old Roman bath the walls were charged with caloric by means of innumerable earthen tubes lining the sides of the laconicum, and covered with a peculiar plaster.

From The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction by Allsop, Robert Owen