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Turkish bath

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Turkish bath
n.
1.
a. A steam bath that induces heavy perspiration in the bather and is followed by a shower and massage.
b. An establishment where facilities are available for Turkish baths.
2. An extremely hot place.

Turkish bath
n
1. a type of bath in which the bather sweats freely in hot dry air, is then washed, often massaged, and has a cold plunge or shower
2. (sometimes plural) an establishment where such a bath is obtainable
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.Turkish bathTurkish bath - a steam room where facilities are available for a bath followed by a shower and massage
steam bath, steam room, vapor bath, vapour bath - a room that can be filled with steam in which people bathe; `vapour bath' is a British term
2.Turkish bathTurkish bath - you sweat in a steam room before getting a rubdown and cold shower
washup, bathing - the act of washing yourself (or another person)
Translations
Turkish bath nbagno turco
Turkish bath nbagno turco


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I took hardly any lunch, but went to Northumberland Avenue and had a Turkish bath instead.
He is fat and so clumsy and so furiously angry, but he's too scared of Trent to do anything but obey orders, and there he works hour after hour, groaning, and the perspiration rolls off him as though he were in a Turkish bath.
All the cities held for me were music, the theatre, and Turkish baths.
 
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