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Meanings of hypocaust in English
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Usage of hypocaust in English
1
I reached the furnace belonging to the hypocaust for the Queen's bathroom.
2
It had no cloisters, no hypocaust, no suite or sequence of rooms.
3
They are headed for the fires of the hypocaust.
4
I considered asking the hypocaust stokers for directions, but there was something ominous in their aspect.
5
In one part of the street was a subterranean arch, very strongly built; in another, what they called, I believe rightly, a Roman hypocaust.
6
To the left of the entrance were the kitchens, with stoves, and with hypocausts beneath them.
7
Model reconstructions and 3D displays show the hypocausts, sauna, pool facilities and a reception hall of this complex.
8
They knew how to make themselves comfortable, built rooms well protected from the weather, and heated with hypocausts.
9
Hypocausts and painted stucco, copied, though crudely, from Roman originals, have been discovered in poor houses and in mean villages.
10
There were no hypocausts beneath to warm the rooms to Summer heat; these, small and bare as cells, were always cold.
11
Away to his right, down a narrow pitch-black tunnel, were the walls of the hypocausts behind which fires roared and ravened.