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balsamarium en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌbɔːl.səˈmɛəɹi.əm/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˌbɔl.səˈmɛɹi.əm/ (General-American)
• /ˌbɑl.səˈmɛɹi.əm/ (cot-caught-merger)

Etymology

From balsam + -arium.

Meanings

1. An ancient vessel for holding balsam.
   • Ms. Wight said that as recently as May the museum bought an important late Hellenistic or early Roman bronze balsamarium, or oil vessel, in the shape of a boxer’s head from a private collection in the United States that has documentation stretching back to the 1870s. 2007 June 26, Randy Kennedy, “Collecting Antiquities, Cautiously, at the Getty”, in New York Times:

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