lavabo

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Room 39, Mademoiselle, has always been the lavabo.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Massé, H. J. L. J. (Henri Jean Louis Joseph)

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)

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