lavabo
Example Sentences
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Room 39, Mademoiselle, has always been the lavabo.
From Time Magazine Archive
The other reliefs are Donatello's too; but the lavabo in the inner sacristy is Verrocchio's, and Verrocchio's tomb of Piero can never be overlooked even amid such a wealth of the greater master's work.
From A Wanderer in Florence by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
An aumbry, lavabo, and piscina are all worthy of study.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire by Massé, H. J. L. J. (Henri Jean Louis Joseph)
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
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)
