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velarium

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ve⋅lar⋅i⋅um

  [vuh-lair-ee-uhm]
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–noun, plural -lar⋅i⋅a  [-lair-ee-uh] . Roman Antiquity.
an awning drawn over a theater or amphitheater as a protection from rain or the sun.
Origin:
1825–35; < L vēlārium (a word known only from a passage in Juvenal; the intended sense may be “curtain” rather than “awning”); see velum, -ary
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ve·lar·i·um   (və-lâr'ē-əm)   
n.   pl. ve·lar·i·a (-ē-ə)
A large awning, especially one suspended over a Roman theater or amphitheater.

[Latin vēlārium, from vēlum, sail, sheet, curtain.]
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