Pl. -a. [L. = sleeping-chamber, f. cubāre to lie down.]
A sleeping-chamber. (Only jocose in modern use.) In Archæol., a burial-chamber in the Catacombs; also, a chapel or oratory attached to a church, esp. in a crypt.
1832. Gell, Pompeiana, I. viii. 154. That sort of cubiculum or chamber.
1852. Mrs. Stowe, Uncle Tom’s C., I. xvi. 267. I stole up to Tom’s cubiculum there, over the stables.
1879. Sir G. Scott, Lect. Archit., II. 40. This nave had arcades opening into either aisles, or into cubicula or oratories.
