cloaca
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Her own recent explorations of the Cloaca Maxima, the great sewer under Rome, revealed that some channels could get completely blocked with silt in less than a year.
From Nature • May 23, 2016
Bonneville's last full stage play was 2004's Cloaca, directed by Kevin Spacey at London's Old Vic.
From BBC • Feb. 18, 2016
“Hence, the great sewer of Rome was the Cloaca Maxima.”
From Forbes • Nov. 5, 2014
The crabs in the Cloaca Maxima appear isolated from other similar crabs, the nearest of which live twenty or thirty miles away.
From Scientific American • Jun. 14, 2012
The most important, which drained the forum, is known as the Cloaca Maxima and dates from the 6th century B.C.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
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