lavabo

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Room 39, Mademoiselle, has always been the lavabo.

From Time Magazine Archive

We had six massive silver candlesticks on the altar, besides those at the sides for the Elevation; the cruets were of silver also, as were the basin for the lavabo, the bell, and the thurible.

From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by Gerard, John

Also a pretty, early Renaissance lavabo in Istrian stone.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)

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

At mass, too, he would be served by none under the rank of an earl; and I heard that he would have a duke sometimes for his lavabo.

From The King's Achievement by Benson, Robert Hugh