The hot plunge in a Roman bath.
| Architecture: caldarium |
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Latin term for the hot room (moist heat) in a Roman bath-house. It usually contains or is adjacent to a hot plunge bath which produces a hot humid atmosphere.
| tepidarium (in archaeology) | |
| labrum (in archaeology) | |
| Caldeira (family name) |
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