colossæum

English

Noun

colossæum (plural colossæums)

1. Archaic spelling of colosseum.
   • 1765, Tobias George Smollett, The Works of Tobias Smollett, volume XI, Letter the Thirty‐Second, page 338:

     The colossæum was built by Vespasian, who employed thirty thousand Jewish slaves in the work; but finished and dedicated by his son Titus, who, on the first day of its being opened, produced fifty thousand wild beasts, which were all killed in the arena.