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Origin of bathhouse
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Other accidental discoveries in the city have included a 2,000-year-old Roman bathhouse.
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
She’s pressed into the service of a controlling witch, Yubaba, who runs a bathhouse where Chihiro finds work.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
Some founders break only to exercise at Barry’s boot camp or sweat out toxins at a bathhouse in the city, like Archimedes Banya, where they can chat about future funding rounds with peers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2025
This painting is actually a repurposed image from a traditional Japanese bathhouse.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025
Hideo pushes away from the edge of the spring and nods toward the steps leading back up to the bathhouse.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
One street has become the neighborhood’s unofficial wellness avenue, where there’s just store after store of red-light therapy, bathhouses, and microneedling.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026
CW: These days, spas and bathhouses have become an escape from digital life.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025
In “Bathhouse.pptx,” Jesús I. Valles investigates the fading history of gay bathhouses, bringing to life both the marginalized people who reveled in them and the forgotten people who cleaned them.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
The sauna, with its Scandinavian origins, has long been popular at spas and bathhouses throughout the United States, but the concept of a floating sauna is more novel.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
Piles of rock are everywhere, looking like once-grand theaters and bathhouses.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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