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hypocaust

/hahy-puh-kawst, hip-uh-/US // ˈhaɪ pəˌkɔst, ˈhɪp ə- //UK // (ˈhaɪpəˌkɔːst) //

伪装,伪装者,伪装者的身份,伪善的空气

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a hollow space or system of channels in the floor or walls of some ancient Roman buildings that provided a central heating system by receiving and distributing the heat from a furnace.

Examples

  • It had no cloisters, no hypocaust, no suite or sequence of rooms.

  • A large hypocaust is described with 120 columns of bricks, and is thought to have belonged to the public baths.

  • Pliny describes a bedchamber in his villa warmed by the hypocaust and the tiles, with narrow openings.

  • It has a well-preserved hypocaust, or apparatus for warming the house by hot air.

  • In Bridge Street is a hypocaust remaining just where the Romans left it.