Pl.: destrictaria

A room in which the bathers could scrape (destringere) the mixture of oil, sweat and dirt off the skin with a strigilis (sickle-shaped scraper). The room had no specific features. The term itself is only attested in an inscription from the Stabian Baths of Pompeii (CIL X, 829), but has found its way into the vocabulary of modern research.