Penetralia
WordNet
noun
(1) The innermost parts
WiktionaryText
Noun
- The innermost, secret or hidden parts.
- The innermost parts of a building, such as a shrine, recess or a sanctuary within a temple.
- 1748, Tobias George Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random
- I believe, had I been in the inmost recesses of my habitation--the very penetralia--your eagerness would have surmounted bolts, bars, decency, and everything.
- 1748, Tobias George Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random