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Definition of: compluvium
(kom·pl
′vē·əm) noun plural ·vi·a (-vē·ə)
A large opening for light and air in the roof of an ancient Roman house, through which rain water ran into the impluvium. [<L <compluere flow together (said of rain)]
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