lavabo
Americannoun
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lavaboes
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Ecclesiastical.
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the ritual washing of the celebrant's hands after the offertory in the Mass, accompanied in the Roman rite by the recitation of Psalm 26:6–12.
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the passage recited.
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the small towel or the basin used.
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(in many medieval monasteries) a large stone basin equipped with a number of small orifices through which water flowed, used for the performance of ablutions.
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a washbowl with a spigot-equipped water tank above, both mounted on a wall: now often used for decoration or as a planter.
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the ritual washing of the celebrant's hands after the offertory at Mass
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( as modifier )
lavabo basin
lavabo towel
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another name for washbasin
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a trough for washing in a convent or monastery
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of lavabo
First recorded in 1855–60, lavabo is from the Latin word lavābō: I shall wash
Example Sentences
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Room 39, Mademoiselle, has always been the lavabo.
From Time Magazine Archive
It has still rich vestments, fine woodwork, and a gay and elaborate lavabo by one of the della Robbias, with its wealth of ornament and colour and its charming Madonna and Child with angels.
From A Wanderer in Florence by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
And the "lavabo," as it is here called, a spacious room with an ostentatiously noisy rush of water which may be heard afar and awakens one at night.
From Impressions and Comments by Havelock Ellis
We had six massive silver candlesticks on the altar, besides those at the sides for the Elevation; the cruets were of silver also, as were the basin for the lavabo, the bell, and the thurible.
From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by John Gerard
Also a pretty, early Renaissance lavabo in Istrian stone.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson
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