Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Fumarium

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

FUMA'RIUM. The smoke-room; a chamber in the upper part of a house in which the smoke from the kitchen fires, or from the furnaces of the bath-rooms, was allowed to collect itself before finding a vent into the air; and which was also used as a storeroom for ripening wine (Mart. x. 36. Compare Hor. Od. iii. 8. 11.); and for drying the moisture out of wood, in order to make it fit for fuel. Columell. i. 6. 19.

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