sweat bath
Example Sentences
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The sweat bath lasts for a long time, often an hour or more, during which many prayers are offered, religious songs chanted, and several pipes smoked to the Sun.
From Blackfoot Lodge Tales The Story of a Prairie People by Grinnell, George Bird
Jim's overcoat gave him the pleasant feeling of sitting in a sweat bath but he dared not doff it.
From Mixed Faces by Norton, Roy
The person wishing to make trial of the virtues of the sweat bath entered the â´sĭ, a small earth-covered log house only high enough to allow of sitting down.
Therefore, when a child is named, four stones are heated for the sweat bath.
From Osage Traditions by Dorsey, James Owen
First of all the patient was given a "sweat bath."
From I Married a Ranger by Smith, Dama Margaret
