baignoire
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She found no play too tedious, no entr'acte too long, no baignoire too hot, no tissue of incidents too complicated, no situation too unnatural and no sentiments too sublime.
From The Tragic Muse by Henry James
"And whom do you suspect?" she asked, her eyes foraging an opposite baignoire.
From Eden An Episode by Edgar Saltus
"You mean the young lady below stairs, in a baignoire in a pink dress?" said Newman.
From The American by Henry James
At the theatre her vivacity sank into a breathless hush, and she sat intent in her corner of their baignoire, with the gaze of a neophyte about to be initiated into the sacred mysteries.
From The Reef by Edith Wharton
On raising the latch and crossing the threshold, one experienced precisely the same impression as when one enters at the theatre into a grated baignoire, before the grating is lowered and the chandelier is lighted.
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
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