vomitorium

[ vom-i-tawr-ee-uhm, -tohr- ]

noun

, plural vom·i·to·ri·a [vom-i-, tawr, -ee-, uh, -, tohr, -].

1. vomitory ( def 5 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of vomitorium¹

First recorded in 1745–55, vomitorium is from the Late Latin word vomitōrium

Example Sentences

But that perception began to change with this 1986 hit, an adaptation of King’s novella “The Body,” in which the most terrifying moment is a pie-eating contest that turns into a comical vomitorium.

From New York Times

“Triangle of Sadness,” Ruben Östlund’s sharply honed critique of wealth inequality and the vagaries of sexual power, went erratically off the rails in a surreally extended sequence in which the dining room of a luxury yacht became a slipping, sloshing vomitorium.

From Washington Post

When you make the most infamous movie ever to come out of a genre sometimes called the cannibal vomitorium, you’ve achieved true cinematic notoriety.

From New York Times

The academic theories driving the leftists in control of the Democrats at the local level and in Washington, D.C., is a vomitorium of resentment and entitlement, policies and legislation meant to annihilate, oh excuse me — “fundamentally transform” — the American way of life.

From Washington Times

It’s time to run for the vomitorium.

From The Guardian