hip bath

Example Sentences

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The hip bath is, well, a bath but not necessarily the real thing.

From The Guardian • May 11, 2013

Finally, they put me in the hip bath and took turns pouring buckets of water over me.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

“Cassawoof poem, please,” the dripping girl requested as Penelope lifted her out of the hip bath.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

His name was simple Smith, generally known as Diogenes Smith, from an eccentric habit which he had of making an easy chair of his hip bath.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas

Within about five minutes the ground floor's wish was gratified, Mrs. Oldbury herself arriving with a large steaming can which she placed inside a hip bath.

From A Rogue by Compulsion by Bridges, Victor