Definition of "naumachy" in English

noun

1. (obsolete) A place built to stage a mock sea-battle, or the show performed therein.

   • Lacedæmonians held their public banquets […], plays, naumachies, places for sea-fights, theatres, amphitheatres able to contain 70,000 men, wherein they had several delightsome shows to exhilarate the people […].