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ALIPILARIUS

Volume 1 · 45 words · 1797 Edition

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