MEANING
A room or place where manuscripts were copied or produced, especially in a monastery.
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- monastic scriptorium
- scriptorium desk
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A lamp burned in the scriptorium.
The monastic scriptorium fell silent at dusk.
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Primary category: gothic. Forms: Singular scriptorium; plural scriptoria or scriptoriums. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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