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ALIPILARIUS

Volume 2 · 43 words · 1860 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 colsetta, to take off the hair from the arm-pits, arms, legs, &c., this being deemed a point of cleanliness.