rubbing-down

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No wonder that, in such paintings as Eclipse at Newmarket, With a Groom and a Jockey, circa 1770, the plain rubbing-down houses on Newmarket Heath look like neo-Egyptian shrines, pyramids of the turf.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of great importance for scrofulous children, furthermore, is a suitable course in gymnastics and rubbing-down with cold water.

From Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated by Brendecke, Fr. (Friedrich)

However, the operation gave me immediate relief, which encouraged me to submit to another rubbing-down before I went to bed; and it was so effectual, that I found myself pretty easy all the night after.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Kerr, Robert

Another room should be appropriated to the bodying-in, smoothing and rubbing-down processes.

From French Polishing and Enamelling A Practical Work of Instruction by Bitmead, Richard

Then, laying the tumbler on the table beside his watch and pocketbook, he finished his rubbing-down, and encased his legs in Pierre's Sunday trousers.

From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by Campbell, John