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Date: 1500-1600
Language: Latin

atrium

 noun
     
Related topics: Architecture, Human, Buildings
at‧ri‧um [countable]
1AATBB a large high open space in a tall building
2HBH one of the two spaces in the top of your heart that push blood into the ventricles
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