Russian bath
Example Sentences
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Mancuso is first glimpsed in the second episode in his lair deep in the basement of a Russian bath house.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025
The unusual exertion had started every pore in my body; the red-hot stove had put on the finishing touches and I was in a Russian bath.
From Forty Minutes Late 1909 by Smith, Francis Hopkinson
Epstein came to the bath-house with a party of friends at 2 A. M., in quest of a Russian bath.
From Out of Mulberry Street Stories of Tenement life in New York City by Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
Mon cher Abbé: I am afraid our little adventure was too much for you; in fact, I myself was very unwell all yesterday, and nothing but a Russian bath has pulled me together.
From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various
It is a sort of intellectual Russian bath, in which the luxury consists in the exaggerated alternative between being scalded first and rolled in the snow afterwards.
From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Lever, Charles James
