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lavabo

[luh-vay-boh, -vah-] / ləˈveɪ boʊ, -ˈvɑ- /


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Room 39, Mademoiselle, has always been the lavabo.

From Time Magazine Archive

Also a pretty, early Renaissance lavabo in Istrian stone.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson

It has still rich vestments, fine woodwork, and a gay and elaborate lavabo by one of the della Robbias, with its wealth of ornament and colour and its charming Madonna and Child with angels.

From A Wanderer in Florence by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

And the "lavabo," as it is here called, a spacious room with an ostentatiously noisy rush of water which may be heard afar and awakens one at night.

From Impressions and Comments by Havelock Ellis

An aumbry, lavabo, and piscina are all worthy of study.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire by H. J. L. J. (Henri Jean Louis Joseph) Massé




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