[L. larārium, f. lar-ēs (see LAR).] The part of a Roman house where the images of Lares or household gods were kept; hence, a private shrine or chapel.
1706. in Phillips (ed. Kersey).
1816. J. Dallaway, Statuary & Sculpt., iii. 165. The Penates … were deposited in the Lararium or wardrobe which stood in some secret apartment, the sleeping room or library.
1848. Lytton, Harold, I. i. The old lararium, stripped of its ancient images of ancestor and god.
1871. Farrar, Witn. Hist., iii. 98, note. The Emperor Alexander Severus admitted an image of Christ into his lararium.
