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Andron

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Same as andronitis.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The apartment appropriated for the males. This was in the lower part of the house.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. In Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, the apartment reserved for males, in the lower part of the house.
  • Word Usage
    "Five days after the birth, the nurse takes the baby, wrapped almost to suffocation in swaddling bands, to the family hearth in the "andron," around which she runs several times, followed doubtless, in merry, frolicking procession, by most of the rest of the family."
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