I found something funny in the Kansas City Star this morning. Among the list of amenities in the Kauffman Stadium renovation was "expanded vomitories to field level concourse".
Vomitories?
My first thought was the ancient Roman barf rooms we used to hear about in school. As bad as the Royals have been in recent years, I didn't think the stadium needed a special facility for regurgitation, especially taxpayers picking up the tab.
A quick dictionary check indicates that a vomitory is an architectural term. It means "one of the tunnellike passages of an ampitheater or stadium between the seats and the outside wall or passageway." Pretty much all stadiums, arenas, and many modern movie theaters have vomitories. (Imagine the entrance to a stadium-seating movie auditorium). The only thing that gets purged in them is the crowd.
That's your vocabulary word for the day. Feel free to use it in your casual conversations.