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

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

But in the steam or Russian bath the perspiration is retarded, and a temperature of 120� is hardly bearable.

From Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity by McCarty, Louis Philippe

After getting our lunch and upon reaching the sidewalk, Borst opened his mouth, and said: 'That's a great place; a plate of cakes, a cup of coffee, and a Russian bath, for ten cents.'

From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer, Frank Lewis

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)