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For an additional $20, guests can don robes and enjoy the lounge area before their treatment.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2026

New Year's Day is traditionally the day when brave swimmers don their fancy dress for the Loony Dook - a hangover-clearing dip in the bracing waters of the Firth of Forth.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025

When Kane Williamson leaves the Bay Oval field on Monday at the end of the Black Caps' third Test against the West Indies, he may never don New Zealand whites again.

From Barron's • Dec. 21, 2025

When Solomonson lost, winner Matt Scheirer made him don a sumo suit with a Dallas Cowboys jersey on top—a nightmare for the fan of the Washington Commanders.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025

“But remember, so far as the company is concerned, he must remain Young Griff until we cross the narrow sea. In Westeros we’ll wash his hair and let him don his armor.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin