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Turkish bath

noun

A steam room where facilities are available for a bath followed by a shower and massage.

You sweat in a steam room before getting a rubdown and cold shower. Synonyms: steam bath, vapor bath, vapour bath.

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"Turkish bath" Quotes from Famous Books

... me carry all the pails. They were willing enough while the things were empty! Well, I'd been patiently laboring about ten minutes when I began to realize how unreasonable it was for me to be taking a Turkish bath after the glorious cold plunge I'd been having; then the look that the guide, philosopher, and friend had worn as we left him returned to me with an appeal. Of course you know that affairs are very serious between him and Edna, and I felt myself in a delicate position. ...

— The Opened Shutters • Clara Louise Burnham

... of garden, or one scrap of shade. No wonder that poor little Lady Nugent detested this oven of an official residence. The interior, though, contains some spacious, stately Georgian rooms; the temperature being that of a Turkish bath. ...

— Here, There And Everywhere • Lord Frederic Hamilton

... most romantic figure in telephone history, next to Bell, is that of a humble Servian immigrant who came to this country as a boy and obtained his first employment as a rubber in a Turkish bath. Michael I. Pupin was graduated from Columbia, studied afterward in Germany, and became absorbed in the new subject of electromechanics. In particular he became interested in a telephone problem that had bothered the greatest experts for years. One thing that had prevented the great ...

— The Age of Big Business - Volume 39 in The Chronicles of America Series • Burton J. Hendrick

... afford to buy new clothes whenever they feel inclined, neither can they end up a jaunt by a Turkish bath and a great feast with wine. So their care is always to preserve intact what they happen to have, to exceed in nothing, to study cleanliness, order, decency, sobriety, and a steady temper, and they fence all this round and preserve it in the only ...

— The Path to Rome • Hilaire Belloc