Cervīcal
(
προσκεφάλαιον, ποτίκρανον). A pillow
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Bed with Cervical. (Pompeii.)
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or cushion, to support the head or shoulder, on a bed or dining-couch (
Mart.xiv. 146;
Suet. Ner.
6). The word is also used, like its Greek equivalents, in a less special sense to
denote any cushion (
Juv.vi. 353;
Petron. 32, 1). See
Pulvinus.