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wash-hand basin

noun

  1. another name for washbasin


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The word Palangana signifies a wash-hand-basin; but more especially the kind of basin used by barbers.

He observed a wash-hand basin with blood on the sides, and blood in some water.

He ran into his bedroom, and filling the wash-hand basin with cold water, plunged his head into it.

She was neither better bred nor wiser than you and me, though we knelt to hand her a letter or a wash-hand basin.

On Sunday he ate voraciously, drank four glasses of grog, and threw the wash-hand basin out of window.

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