hip bath

Example Sentences

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The hip bath is, well, a bath but not necessarily the real thing.

From The Guardian • May 11, 2013

Finally, they put me in the hip bath and took turns pouring buckets of water over me.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

“Cassawoof poem, please,” the dripping girl requested as Penelope lifted her out of the hip bath.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

Dysentery, New Method to Cure.—"A hot hip bath will often relieve distressing sensations of dysentery or itching piles."

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson

His name was simple Smith, generally known as Diogenes Smith, from an eccentric habit which he had of making an easy chair of his hip bath.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas