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ALIPILARIUS

Volume 1 · 45 words · 1778 Edition

or ALIFILUS, in Roman antiquity, a servant belonging to the baths, whose business it was, by means of waxen plasters, and an instrument called vesicula, to take off the hairs from the arm-pits, and even arms, legs, &c. this being deemed a point of cleanliness.