ablutionary

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There were indeed some ablutionary gestures in the council.

From Time Magazine Archive

The ablutionary fluid is most difficult to be had in places where water is abundant.

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 20, August 13, 1870 by Various

Upon one stood a basin, in which was water that had some time ago been used for the ablutionary purposes of someone sadly in need of a wash.

From Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl by Newte, Horace W. C. (Horace Wykeham Can)

The loch was a little too far from the house to be a convenient place of resort for ablutionary purposes.

From Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

Speaking of room with bath, Maw solved the ablutionary problem for herself the other day at Old Faithful Ranger Station.

From Maw's Vacation The Story of a Human Being in the Yellowstone by Hough, Emerson