‖ apodyterium
(æpəʊdɪˈtɪərɪəm)
[L., a. Gr. ἀποδυτήριον, f. ἀπο-δύ-ειν to put off, undress.]
orig. The apartment in which clothes were deposited by those who were preparing for the bath or palæstra; hence gen. a dressing-room, a robing-room.
| a 1695 Wood Life (1848) 193 Conducted in his doctor's robes from the apodyterium into the convocation house. 1820 T. Mitchell Com. Aristoph. I. Introd. 55 It was my lot to be sitting where you saw me, in the apodyterium. |