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.
noun
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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
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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
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
In the sacristy, however, we may see in the present lavabo some fragments of the ancient ciborio.
From Ravenna, a Study by Edward Hutton
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
The other reliefs are Donatello's too; but the lavabo in the inner sacristy is Verrocchio's, and Verrocchio's tomb of Piero can never be overlooked even amid such a wealth of the greater master's work.
From A Wanderer in Florence by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
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