Meanings
noun
- pluralplural of colossæum
“The Pagans,” as an old Spanish writer observes, “spent their riches in erecting baths, colossæums, pyramids, arches, and those insane edifices which antiquity celebrated.
1840, Kenelm-Henry Digby, Mores Catholici; or Ages of Faith (Bookers & Dolman), Book X, Chapter XIX, page 625
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