Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Tricliniaris

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

TRICLINIA'RIS. Characterises any article, utensil, or object connected with the service and furniture of a dinner-table and dining-room (triclinium); as, lectus tricliniaris (Plin. H. N. xxxvi. 6.), the dining-couch (LECTUS, 4.); gradus tricliniaris (Varro, L. L. viii. 32.), the steps by which the couch was ascended (GRADUS, 1.); mappa tricliniaris (Varro, L. L. ix. 47.), a table napkin (MAPPA, 1.); and absolutely, in the plural, tricliniaria (Plin. H. N. viii. 74.), the coverlets and hangings used upon and about the couch (PERISTROMA, STRAGULUM, TORALE); or the dining-rooms themselves (Varro, R. R. i. 13. 7. TRICLINIUM, 2.).