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CUBICLE (Lat. cubiculum)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 607 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CUBICLE (Lat. cubiculum)

CUBICLE (See also:
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Lat. cubiculum) , a small chamber containing a See also:

COUCH, DARIUS NASH (1822-1897)

couch or a See also:

bed. The small rooms opening into the See also:

ATRIUM (either from ater, black, referring to the blackening of the walls from the smoke of the hearth, or from the Greek aiOpeov, open to the sky, or from an Etruscan town, Atria, where the style of building is supposed to have originated)

atrium of a Pompeian See also:

house are known as cubicula. In See also:

MODERN

modern See also:

ENGLISH

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SCHOOLS

schools " cubicle " is the See also:

TERM

term given to the See also:

SEPARATE

separate small bed-rooms into which the dormitories are divided, as opposed to the See also:

SYSTEM

system of large open dormitories.

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