(noun.) a large amphitheater in Rome whose construction was begun by Vespasian about AD 75 or 80.
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The Colosseum at Rome, for example, the arena of many great gladiatorial shows, was converted into a fortress, and so was the amphitheatre at Arles. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
They had something of the sort of pleasure in us, I suppose, that they might have had in a pretty toy, or a pocket model of the Colosseum. 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.