frigidarium

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Finally, they would enter the largest and most spectacular room of all - the frigidarium, or cold room.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2025

Exposed now is a Roman thermal bath with its frigidarium, or cold room, almost intact.

From Time Magazine Archive

Shadow-travel left her groggy and nauseous, as if she’d been dragged from the cold waters of the frigidarium into the sauna at a Roman bathhouse.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

The plunge-bath chamber should be well lighted, but not above the tone of the frigidarium, or the bather will feel to be going from cheerfulness to comparative gloom, which would be unpleasant.

From The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction by Allsop, Robert Owen

The hair-dressing room and accommodation for the chiropodist—if he does not practise his art at the couch of the bather—must adjoin the frigidarium, as also should the attendants' room.

From The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction by Allsop, Robert Owen