Definition of Hipogeum
||Hyp`o*ge"um (?), n.; pl.
Hypogea (#). [L., fr. Gr. &?;, &?;, subterranean;
&?; under + &?;, &?;, the earth.] (Anc. Arch.) The
subterraneous portion of a building, as in amphitheaters, for the
service of the games; also, subterranean galleries, as the
catacombs.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- an underground room or cavern
*1969: Contour: the unique parameters of Karen's body – beckoning vents of mouth and vulva, the soft hypogeum of the anus. — JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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