lavabo
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Room 39, Mademoiselle, has always been the lavabo.
From Time Magazine Archive
All the other articles, too, were of silver: the lavabo basin, the bell, the thurible, the boat and spoon, and the cruets.
From By What Authority? by Robert Hugh Benson
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
We had six massive silver candlesticks on the altar, besides those at the sides for the Elevation; the cruets were of silver also, as were the basin for the lavabo, the bell, and the thurible.
From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by John Gerard
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
