Definition of "triclinium"
noun
plural tricliniums or triclinia
(Ancient Rome) A couch for reclining at mealtimes, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts.
Quotations
Seated on the triclinium in the midst is a middle-aged man, with a high and noble brow; the fine aquiline nose, so patrician, as if their eagle had set his own seal on his warlike race;...
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], page 259