slipper bath
Britishnoun
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a bath in the shape of a slipper, with a covered end
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history (plural) an establishment where members of the public paid to have a bath
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A double-doored lobby is formed in the latter apartment, and the slipper bath used as ordinarily.
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The cariole is in form not unlike a slipper bath, both in shape and size.
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In form, it was as like as possible to a tin slipper bath.
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At the age of forty-five he became—as he himself expressed it—an abject slave, and he would as soon have tried to steer in a slipper bath right in the teeth of an equinoctial hurricane as have opposed the will of his wife.
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