rubbing-down
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No wonder that, in such paintings as Eclipse at Newmarket, With a Groom and a Jockey, circa 1770, the plain rubbing-down houses on Newmarket Heath look like neo-Egyptian shrines, pyramids of the turf.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of great importance for scrofulous children, furthermore, is a suitable course in gymnastics and rubbing-down with cold water.
From Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated by Brendecke, Fr. (Friedrich)
Another room should be appropriated to the bodying-in, smoothing and rubbing-down processes.
From French Polishing and Enamelling A Practical Work of Instruction by Bitmead, Richard
However, the operation gave me immediate relief, which encouraged me to submit to another rubbing-down before I went to bed; and it was so effectual, that I found myself pretty easy all the night after.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Kerr, Robert
To-day it means washing the face, and neck, and hands daily; to-morrow, the feet; and day after to-morrow, washing the whole body every day, and, in addition and in particular, a rubbing-down.
From What to Do? Thoughts Evoked By the Census of Moscow by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
