lavabo
Example Sentences
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Room 39, Mademoiselle, has always been the lavabo.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the entrance lobby is a lavabo by Mino da Fiesole, with two little boys of the whitest and softest marble on it, which is worth study.
From A Wanderer in Florence by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
All the other articles, too, were of silver: the lavabo basin, the bell, the thurible, the boat and spoon, and the cruets.
From By What Authority? by Benson, Robert Hugh
It has still rich vestments, fine woodwork, and a gay and elaborate lavabo by one of the della Robbias, with its wealth of ornament and colour and its charming Madonna and Child with angels.
From A Wanderer in Florence by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
And the "lavabo," as it is here called, a spacious room with an ostentatiously noisy rush of water which may be heard afar and awakens one at night.
From Impressions and Comments by Ellis, Havelock
