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

A day’s rest is the best thing; an hour’s sitting in a hot hip bath, replenishing the heat as the water cools, gives much relief.

From Boating by Woodgate, W. B.