ablutions

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At Bristol Old Vic you can catch Fellswoop's Ablutions, a bar room drama, and the "lo-fi musical" The Islanders.

From The Guardian • Apr. 12, 2013

Ablutions are performed there in reservoirs fed with very warm sulphureous water.

From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century by D'Anvers, N.

Ablutions over, the indispensable siesta is enjoyed by everybody, on catres or in hammocks; for the heat of mid-day is insupportable, and repose after a bath is considered salutary.

From The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba by Goodman, Walter

Importance of frequent Ablutions and Change of Garments.

From A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Beecher, Catharine Esther

In this way he takes in succession the typical Jewish institutions—Circumcision, Foods, Ablutions, Covenant, Sabbath, Temple—showing their spiritual counterpart in the New People and its ordinances, and that the Cross was prefigured from the first.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various