frigidarium

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Finally, they would enter the largest and most spectacular room of all - the frigidarium, or cold room.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2025

Exposed now is a Roman thermal bath with its frigidarium, or cold room, almost intact.

From Time Magazine Archive

Shadow-travel left her groggy and nauseous, as if she’d been dragged from the cold waters of the frigidarium into the sauna at a Roman bathhouse.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

In this bath the office is arranged in the old building in Jermyn Street, adjoining which is the combined frigidarium and apodyterium, a structure of wood, originally intended as a temporary building only.

From The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction by Allsop, Robert Owen

Similarly, in a Roman style, a Pompeian court seems suggestive of the arrangement of a fine frigidarium, with its cubicula for couches, and its central area and fountain.

From The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction by Allsop, Robert Owen