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scriptorium

Noun

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

scriptorium(n = noun.artifact) - a room in a monastery that is set aside for writing or copying manuscripts;

is a kind of room

scriptorium, n. [LL. See Scriptory.].

In an abbey or monastery, the room set apart for writing or copying manuscripts; in general, a room devoted to writing. [1913 Webster]

"Writing rooms, or scriptoria, where the chief works of Latin literature . . . were copied and illuminated." [1913 Webster]

scriptorium, n. (pl. scriptoria or scriptoriums) a room set apart for writing, esp. in a monastery.

Derivative

scriptorial adj.

Etymology

med.L (as SCRIPT)

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