Russian bath

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Mancuso is first glimpsed in the second episode in his lair deep in the basement of a Russian bath house.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2025

That'll be better than walking into Richmond in need of a Russian bath.'

From Taking Chances by Cullen, Clarence L.

Its real value in cold climates is proven by the sustained fondness for the Russian bath in the north of Europe.

From The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

It is a sort of intellectual Russian bath, in which the luxury consists in the exaggerated alternative between being scalded first and rolled in the snow afterwards.

From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Lever, Charles James

Stacey was in running costume—“undress uniform,” he called it—but he had knotted a rose-coloured Russian bath gown about him to keep him from taking cold.

From Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter by Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams)