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‖ velarium|vɪˈlɛərɪəm|
Pl. velaria.
[L. vēlāri-um awning, f. vēlum sail, etc., velum.]
1. Rom. Antiq. A large awning used to cover a theatre or amphitheatre as a protection against sun or rain.
1834Lytton Pompeii v. ii, The obstinate refusal of one part of the velaria to ally itself with the rest. 1836C. Wordsworth Athens xiii. (1855) 76 As if for the insertion of horizontal beams, on which, in the more effeminate times of Athens, a velarium, or awning, was perhaps extended. 1880L. Wallace Ben-Hur 267 When he sat under the purple velaria of the Circus Maximus.
transf.1892Contemp. Rev. Nov. 681 The great velarium of the pulpit, intended as a sounding board for the preacher's voice, was spread over the nave like a vast bird.
2. Zool. A thin marginal rim on the bell of certain hydrozoans.
1888Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life 782 The bell itself is somewhat flattened... Its margin never becomes inflected inwards: when it is thin and velum-like..it is termed by Haeckel ‘velarium’. |
