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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 (
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Lat. cubiculum) , a small chamber containing a

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COUCH, DARIUS NASH (1822-1897)

couch or a

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BED
BED (a common Teutonic word, cf. German Bett, probably connected with the Indo-European root bhodh, seen in the Lat. fodere, to dig; so " a dug-out place " for safe resting, or in the same sense as a garden " bed ")

bed . The small rooms opening into the

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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

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house are known as cubicula . In

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MODERN

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ENGLISH

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SCHOOLS

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CUBICLE (Lat. cubiculum)

cubicle " is the

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TERM

term given to the

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SEPARATE

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

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SYSTEM

system of large open dormitories .

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