||Tri*clin"i*um (?), n.; pl.
Triclinia (#). [L., from Gr. ?, ?; ? (see Tri-
) + ? a couch.] (Rom. Antiq.) (a)
A couch for reclining at meals, extending round three sides of a
table, and usually in three parts. (b) A dining
room furnished with such a triple couch.