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

These ruins represent the great Roman baths of the palace, the frigidarium, the piscine, the tepidarium, and, somewhat deeper, the hypocaustum, or furnace for heating.

From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by Walton, William

In spite of the theoretical and sentimental advantages of separate cooling and dressing-rooms, a combined frigidarium and apodyterium seems to have found favour latterly.

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