triclinium
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A couch for reclining at meals, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts.
A dining room furnished with such a triple couch.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
trinity
triune
trilateral
table
triple
triangular
couch
triad
triumvirate
trigon
trio
dining room
trinitarian
trilogy
triplicity
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Grimm, "On Food and the Body," p. 356. Guests were entertained in a finely decorated dining room ( triclinium ), often with a view of the peristyle garden.
They concluded that the grotto is actually a nymphaeum or underground triclinium from Neronian times.