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lavabo

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


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Room 39, Mademoiselle, has always been the lavabo.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Ellis, Havelock

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 Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)

In the entrance lobby is a lavabo by Mino da Fiesole, with two little boys of the whitest and softest marble on it, which is worth study.

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

The other reliefs are Donatello's too; but the lavabo in the inner sacristy is Verrocchio's, and Verrocchio's tomb of Piero can never be overlooked even amid such a wealth of the greater master's work.

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




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