FAUCES (a Latin plural word for " throat "; the singular faux is rarely found)

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FAUCES (a Latin plural word for " throat "; the singular faux is rarely found) , in anatomy, the hinder

part

PART

of the mouth, which leads into the pharynx; also an architectural

term

TERM

given by Vitruvius to narrow passages on either side of the

tablinum

TABLINUM (or tabulinum, from tabula, board, picture)

, through which

access

ACCESS (Lat. accessus)

could be obtained from the

atrium

ATRIUM (either from ater,
black
, referring to the blackening of the walls from the smoke of the
hearth
- HEARTH (a word which appears in various forms in several Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch haard, German Herd, in the sense of " floor ")
, or from the Greek aiOpeov, open to the sky, or from an Etruscan town, Atria, where the style of building is supposed to have originated)

to the peristylar

court

COURT
COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the
influence
- INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)
of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

in the

rear

REAR

.

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