Triclinium
in Roman antiquities, in early times, the whole family sat together in the atrium, or public room; but when mansions were built upon a large scale, one or more spacious spacious banqueting halls commonly formed part of the plan, such apartments being classed under the general title of triclinia. The word triclinium, however, in its strict signification, denotes not the apartment, but a set of low divans or couches grouped round a table; these couches, according to the usual arrangement, being three in number, and arranged round three sides of the table, the fourth side being left open for the ingress and egress of the atten- TRIESTE white, red, divided vertically; Holland, red, white, blue, divided horizontally; Italy, green, white, red, divided vertically. During the revolution of 1789 in France the revolutionists adopted as their colors the three colors of the city of Paris for their symbol. The three colors were first devised by Mary Stuart, wife of Francis II. The white represented the royal house of France; the ! blue, Scotland; and the red, Switzerland, in compliment to the Swiss guards, whose livery it was. In botany, Amaranthus tricolor, a species from China, with bright foliage, but insignificant flowers.