sweating-room
11hot room — hot room, a room heated to a high temperature, especially for inducing sweating, as in a bathing establishment …
12steam room — a steam filled and heated room to induce sweating, as in a Turkish bath. [1870 75] * * * …
13steam room — heated room filled with steam to cause sweating …
14Thermae — This page is on buildings used for Roman bathing. For the activity in general, see Ancient Roman bathing. The terms balnea or thermae were the words the ancient Romans used for the buildings housing their public baths.Most Roman cities had at… …
15sudatory — I. n. Hot house, sweating bath, vapor bath, sweating room, stew, bagnio, Turkish bath, Russian bath, warm bath, tepidarium. II. a. Sweating, perspiring …
16stove — (n.) mid 15c., heated room, bath room, from M.L.G. or M.Du. stove, both meaning heated room, which was the original sense in English; a general West Germanic word (Cf. O.E. stofa bath room, Ger. Stube sitting room ) of uncertain relationship to… …
17Deva Victrix — Deva, rendered as it probably appeared …
18Laconicum — (i.e. Spartan, sc. balneum , bath), the dry sweating room of the Roman thermae , contiguous to the caldarium or hot room. The name was given to it as being the only form of warm bath that the Spartans admitted. The laconicum was usually a… …
19Sudatorium — Sudatorium, the term in architecture for the vaulted sweating room ( sudor , sweat) of the Roman thermae, referred to in Vitruvius (v. 2), and there called the concamerata sudatio .In order to obtain the great heat required, the whole wall was… …
20laconicum — /leuh kon i keuhm/, n., pl. laconica / keuh/. the sudatorium of an ancient Roman bath. [1690 1700; < L laconicum sweating room, n. use of neut. of Laconicus Laconian (see LACONIC); the sweat bath was a Spartan custom] * * * …
