Russian bath

Example Sentences

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Mancuso is first glimpsed in the second episode in his lair deep in the basement of a Russian bath house.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2025

Stacey was in running costume—“undress uniform,” he called it—but he had knotted a rose-coloured Russian bath gown about him to keep him from taking cold.

From Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter by Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams)

That'll be better than walking into Richmond in need of a Russian bath.'

From Taking Chances by Cullen, Clarence L.

In that wretched, reeking hole Ferrier improvised a Russian bath with a blanket or two, a low stool, and a lamp turned down moderately low.

From A Dream of the North Sea by Runciman, James

It is a sort of intellectual Russian bath, in which the luxury consists in the exaggerated alternative between being scalded first and rolled in the snow afterwards.

From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Lever, Charles James