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

Then, laying the tumbler on the table beside his watch and pocketbook, he finished his rubbing-down, and encased his legs in Pierre's Sunday trousers.

From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by Campbell, John

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

"There's no rubbing-down for you to do, I reckon."

From The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

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