hip bath
Britishnoun
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The hip bath is, well, a bath but not necessarily the real thing.
From The Guardian ● May 11, 2013
“Cassawoof poem, please,” the dripping girl requested as Penelope lifted her out of the hip bath.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
Finally, they put me in the hip bath and took turns pouring buckets of water over me.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
The various kinds of baths, both hot and cold, are the shower bath, the douche, the hip bath and the sponge bath.
From Our Deportment Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society by John H. Young
His name was simple Smith, generally known as Diogenes Smith, from an eccentric habit which he had of making an easy chair of his hip bath.
From Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes
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