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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
The bathhouse has been a staple of global wellness culture for thousands of years, from Turkish hammams to Japanese onsen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2025
Even the bathrooms are opulent in that uncanny, chain-restaurant way: part suburban shopping plaza, part Ancient Egyptian bathhouse, all backlit marble and echoing tile.
From Salon ● May 19, 2025
Within a bathhouse, there are so many different rooms, with their own temperatures, made out of different things.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025
Despite my busy night, I’d barely slept past sunrise, so I had easy access to the bathhouse.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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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
All over Japan, restaurants, cafeterias, bathhouses and other businesses are facing a similar prospect.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2024
The Seoul Metropolitan Government is scheduled to inspect some 3,200 public facilities, including hotels and bathhouses, to assess their sanitary conditions.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2023
Instead, portable bathrooms and sinks are stationed throughout the property, plus two bathhouses with hot showers.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
There were a number of bathhouses along the beach, of rough but solid construction, built with small, protecting galleries facing the water.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
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